RING PAROCIUET. 
I’he Ring Paroquet is the first of the spe- 
cies of that name, and is supposed to have 
been the only one known to the ancients 
since the time of Alexander the Great down 
to the age of Nero; but this opinion cannot 
be easily maintained, as the communication 
'yith the East Indies, of which they are na- 
tives, was not much intercepted in that lapse 
of years. This bird is about fifteen inches 
* on S; bis beak is thick and all over red; the 
bend and the body green ; the legs, feet, and 
claws, arc black. He has a red circle or 
r,n S which encompasses the back of the 
n cck, and is behind about the breadth of 
ones little finger, but grows narrower by 
