origin: as Parrots are feldom known to traverfe far aerofs the
ocean ; neither was America at that time known.
V a r . B.
p u r p l e -
ringed
parrakeet.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e .
La Perruche a Collier des Indes, Brif orn. iv. p. 326. N° 56'^.
Bracelet Parrakeet from the Eaft Indies, Albin. ii. pi. 18.
T ENGTH feventeen inches. The upper mandible orange ;
the lower black: irides yellow. It differs from the laft in
having the fkin round the eyes brown : the crown of the head of
a blueifh green > the ring purple: and the fore part of the neck,
and breaft pale rofe-colour.
Inhabits the Eaft. Indies■*-
DOUBLERINGED
PARRAKEET.
Pfittacus Alexandria Lin. Syß. i. p. 142, N" 1.!, y.
La Perruche à Collier de 1’Ille de Bourbon, Brif. orn. iv. p. 328. N° $7-
t: 27. f. 1.
La Perruche à double Collier, Buf. oif. vi. p, 143.
Perruche à Collier,de Pille de.Bourbon, PL. enl. 213.
D e s c r i p t io n . T ENGTH thirteen inches and a half Bill nearly as the
others : parts above green ; beneath yellow green : the ring
round the neck is rofe-colour,, broadeft before; above it the
plumage has a little mixture of blue green : under the throat rifes
, a yellow ftripe, which meets the rofe-coloured ring: on the Tides
of the neck, above the ring,, is a narrow black ftripe, which
reaches on each fide to the lower mandible : the tail is green
above, and yellow afh beneath;. the t.wo middle feathers longer
than the outer ones by nearly four inches.
6 Inhabits
Inhabits the Ifte of Bourbon, and other parts in the fame lati-
titude,,both in Africa and the Indies,
Pfittacus Alexandra, Lin. Sj/I. i. p. 142. N° 14-.S'.
La Perruche à tête blue des Indes, Brif. orn. App. p. i>zg.
La Perruche à tête d,Azur, Buf. oif. vi. p, 148.
Blue-headed Parrakeet, Ed<w. t. 292.
of a Pigeon. Bill red : eyes contained in a naked fleflv
jured fkin': irides orange head and throat fine blue : the
reft of the. plumage green, paleft beneath ;. except the quills,
which are cinereous beneath, and blue on the edges : on the
upper wing coverts is a fpot of yellow: tail above blue; dull
yellow beneath ; the two middle feathers thirteen inches long,;
the outer ones very fhort.: legs and daws afh-coloured.
Inhabits India.
Pfittacus Javanicus, OJbeck's Voy. vol. i. p. 156.
C IZ E lefs than the laft. Upper mandible pale red ; the lower
pale yellow : cere black : the head every where covered with
fhort feathers of a pale blue and pale yellow : temples black : all
the other parts of the bird are grafs-green, except the throat and
breaft, which are of'a pale red": the wings ar,e light grey beneath;
but five of the wing coverts are yellow: tail yellowifh: legs
greenifh grey.
Inhabits Java, where it is univerfally. expofed to fale. Mr.
OJleck likens this to the Alexandrine, as a variety; and, on that
fuppofition, I give it this place.
La.
PiACE.
37-
V a r . D.
AZURE-
HÈÂDED"
PARRAKEET.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P e a c e .
„V 37- , ar'.,E,
JAVAN
PARRAKEET.
D e s c r i p t io n .