P l a c e .
long, and the outer ones very Ihort : legs reddifh : claws
blackilh.
Inhabits Braßt. Edwards fays that this bird was a female y
and that it laid five or fix eggs during its living in England
which was for the fpace of fourteen years.
LINEATED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n ,
Pfittacus Uneatus, Lin. S y ß . iii. app, p-. 22 j .
g I Z E of a Dove. General colour green, but paleft beneath s
the quills are brown beneath, with the inner margins very
pale, which gives the appearance of the wing being longitudinally
ftriped with narrow lines: tail cuneiform, a little longer than the
body. Linnaus gives no other account of it than the above, noir
does he mention its native place.
5&
-t- PACIFIC
PARRAKEET.
D escrip tion •
Lev. Muß
T ,ENGTH twelve inches. Bill of a filvery blue; end black t
in fome, the forehead and half the crown;, in others-,, the forehead
only, of a deep crimfon: behind each eye a fpot of the fame
colour: on each fide of the vent a patch of the fame: the
plumage in general of a dark green, paleft on the under parts r-
the tail is cuneiform ; the two middle feathers are five inches and
Pfi ACEV
a half in length, the outer ones two inches and a half ; upper
parts of it the fame green, with the bodyy beneath alh-colour
the- outer edge of the wing, as far as the middle of the quills, deep-
blue ■, the ends, of the quills duiky •. legs brown t claws blade.
This is found at Qtaheite *, but is no.t peculiar to that
* M. Bougainville mentions ct a very {mall fort of Parrakeet, very lingular on-
account of the various mixture of blue and red in the feathers perhaps thefe’
very birds, Boug, Foj„ p.. 247. Eng. edit.
•ifland'; it has been met with in other parts, and varies accordingly
* J ’-HAT found at Dujky Bay, in New Zealand, wanted the red on
each fide of the rump, and the tail not fo long in proportion.
It is called in this place by the name otKugha-areckic.
A SECOND variety differed from the other in having, the rump
red,, but marked as the firft-mentioned-
Jj^NOTHER, which I obferved at Sir Jofeph Banks’s, had the
forehead only red, and the whole crown of the head- yellow,
©therwife differed not from the others.
This inhabited New Caledonia.
Thele birds are valued for the few' red feathers * they have-
about themhence the ftore they fet by red feathers brought
from other iflands,, as mentioned by the feveral voyagers to the-
South. Seas.
g IZ E of the laff fpecies: length eight inches. Bill red : general
colour green-, but paler, and1 much inclined’ to yellow on the.
• A fort of a greenifil colour, with a few red fpotsv were common among the
Bananas, and appeared frequently tame in the houfes of the natives, who feemed,
to-value them for their red feathers., ForJl. Voy, i.. p, 27.2.