234 P A R R O T .
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BLUECOLLARED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Place.
37-
4- ALEXANDRINE
PARRAKEET.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P lace*
La Perruche a Collier de l’lfle de Lugon, Sox. Voy. p. 80. t. 43.
g I Z E of the common Parrakeet. Bill and irides red: headi
neck, and belly, greyifh green : on the neck is a band of light
blue, forming a collar: wings and back grafs green : at the beginning
of each wing is a large deep red lpot: tail cuneiform;
the two middle feathers are much longer than the reft, and grafs
green ; the others of a greyilh green : legs blackilh grey.
Inhabits the ifland of Luzonia.
Pfittacos Alexandri, L in .S y fl. i. p. 141. N8 14__S a p . Ann. i. p. 29. N’jzS.
La grande Perruche à Collier, d’un rouge vif, A u f. o if. vj. p. 141.
Perruche à Collier des Mes Maldives, P I. enl. 642.
Pfittacus torquatus macrourus, R a il Syn. p. 33. N° 1.
Ring Parrakeet, W ill. ont. p. 115.—E dw . pl. 292.
L e v . Mu/.
g I Z E of a Pigeon. Bill red: general colour of the plumage
green ; paleft on the under parts: the throat is black, pafiing
behind to meet a crefcent of red at the back part of the neck : at
the bend of the wing a purplilh fpot: the tail * is longer than
the body, green fringed with blue, and of a pale yellow beneath:
legs duiky.
This fpecies inhabits the fouthern part of the continent o f
I find authors differ much in the length : B u ffon makes it fifteen inches long
in the whole : Willughby fays the tail is fix inches long : Scopoli, that it is near
a foot. This will be the cafe in all long-tailed birds; and perhaps it would be
better to judge by bulk than length in fuch birds.
Afia,
P A R R O T .
Afia, alfo the neighbouring illes, and Ceylon. It is moll probable
that Alexander might mean this Parrot, as the Taft illand his army
vifited was Ceylon, from whence therefore he might have had
them.
I have received this from the Eaft Andies.
La Perruche a Collier, B r if. orn. iv. p. 323. N°55.
La Perruche a Collier couleur de rofe, B u f. o if. vi. p. 152.—iY. enl, 551.
B r . M uf. L e v . M uf.
T ENGTH fifteen inches and a quarter: fize of a Blackbird.
The upper mandible is blood red, with a black tip ; the
lower one black : irides yellow : eyes furrounded with a flelh-
coloured fkin : the general colour is pale green : throat black :
round the neck is a ring of a light rofe-colour: the hind head inclines
to violet: tail nine inches long, and much cuneated, the
two middle feathers exceeding the outer ones by feven inches:
the legs are afh-coloured : claws grey brown. This bird, as far
as I have obferved, does not gain the ring round the neck the
firft year at leaft, as I have feen feveral which were quite plain
when they were at firft imported, and gained the ring at the next
year’s moult.
This bird is a native of Africa, and not of America, as M.
Brijfon makes i t : indeed it is frequently imported from various
parts of America and the Weft Indies, but has been firft carried to
thofe parts, by the fhips in the ftave-trade, from Senegal. If this
fpecies be allowed to be the Parrot defcribed by Aldrovand (as
fome think) as one known both to the Romans and Greeks, the
circumftance muft be impoffible, if the • bird was of American
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37-
4- V a r . A.
ROSE-RINGED
PARRAKEET.
D escription.
O b servation.
origin :