THE 
GREY-HEADED PARRAKEET. 
Generic Character. 
Bill hooked : upper mandible moveable. 
Nojirils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue flelhy, broad, blunt at the end. 
Feel fcanforial. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Short-tailed green PARRAKEET, with the bead 
and lower part of the neck grey, and a black 
bar aerofs the tail. 
GREY-HEADED PARRAKEET. 
Lath. syn. l. p.315. 
Pcrruche a tete grife. 
Buff. ois. 6 . p. 171. 
Petite Perruche de Madagafcar. 
PI. Enl. 791. f. 2. 
This little bird is one of the fmalleft of its tribe: 
the elegant fpecimen reprefented on the annexed 
plate is preferved in the Leverian Mufeum. 
