23 s PP AA RR RR OO TT .. ''
38.
MUSTACHOE
PARRAKEET.
La Perruche a Mouftaches, Buf. oif. vi. p. 149.
Perruche de Pondichery, P i. enl. 517.
Lev. Muf
D e s c r i p t io n , 'y 'H IS is about eleven inches in length. The forehead, from
one eye to the other, is black : from the under jaw on each
fide arifes a black ftripe, which pafies to the fides of the throat,
where it is wider than at its origin, and appears like a mufta-
choe; the reft of the face is white and blueilh : the back is of a
deep green : the wing coverts are marked with yellow; and the
quills are deep green : the breaft is the colour of lilac : the tail is
about half the length of the bird; above green; beneath ftraw-
colour.
P l a c e ,
This, according to Buffon, has net been mentioned before.
Inhabits Pondicherry.
38.
V a r . A.
BEARDED
PARRAKEET. y ^ENGTH from the bill to the rump feven inches. Bill red;
D e s c r i p t io n . the under mandible paleft: crown of the head green : between
the bafe of the bill and the eyes cheftnut: from the noftrils
to the eye a line of brown : from under the "chin fprings a ftreak
of black, palling downwards on each fide a little way, like a beard
or whilker, half an inch broad ; nape of the neck blofiom-colour:
general colour of the reft of the body green, paleft on the under
parts : the quills dulky, edged with blue: legs dulky; the tail
was imperfeft.
In the mufeum of Dr. W. Hunter, but from whence unknown.
La
P A R R O T . 239
La Perruche à tête rouge de Gingi, Brif orn. iv. p. 346. N° 65. t. 29 f, 2.
— iV. enlurn. 264.
La Perruche à tête rouge, «ƒ. vi. p. 144,
Lev. Muf.
y ^ESS than the common Parrakeet : total length eleven inches.
The bill is reddilh : the head red, with a lhade of light
blue ; partaking mod of this colour at the hind head : the chin
is black, narrowing into a (lender line from the corners of the
mouth to the hind head; beneath the black is another llender
line of a very pale green, both making a kind of collar : the reft
of the plumage is green ; the under parts have a tinge of yellow :
on the wing coverts is a dull red fpot : the tail is fix inches and -a
quarter long; green above, with the inner margins yellow; the
outer feather Ihorter than the middle ones by four inches : legs
and claws grey.
Inhabits Gingi, in the Eaft Indies.
3 9- BLOSSOM.
HEADED
PARRAKEET.
D e s c r i p t io n ;
P l a c e .
La Perruche de Bengale, Brif. orn. iv. p. 348. N° 66.
La petite Perruche à tête coleur de rofe à longs brins, Buf. oif. vi. p. 154.
La Perruche à tête rouge de l’Ifle de Luçon, Son. Voy. p. 79. t. 42.
Perruche de Mahé, PI. eni. 888.
Parrakeet From Bengal, Albin, iii. p. 7. t. 14.
Rofe-headed ring Parrakeet, Ednv. glean, t. 233.
OIZE of the laft : length ten * inches. The upper mandible
pale yellow ; the lower dull brown or black : cere brownilh :
crown and cheeks rofe-colour : hind head blue : the throat, and
* Buffo, fays, twelve inches.
39•
V a r . A .
ROSE-HEADED
RING
PARRAKEET.
ring