colour: irides blueilh: general colour green, paleft beneath: fore
part of the head and throat red : ridge of the wing and the rump
blue, but {he upper tail coverts are green: upper part of the tail
feathers red ; beneath this is a narrow bar of black, and the tips
are green ; the two middle feathers wholly green: legs and claws
grey.
The female is marked much the fame, but the colours not fo
ftrong : the red on the face much paler : and the ridge of the wing
yellow.
Thefe birds inhabit Guinea, where they are very common.
They are alfo found in Ethiopia, the Eaft Indies, and the ifland
of Java *. They are remarkable for their affeftion to each
other; and on the knowledge of this, they are kept by pairs
in one cage. The male is ever obliging and affectionate to his
confort; will hull the feeds for her with his bill, and prefent
them to her in this ftate; and feems unhappy at a minute’s fepa-
ration, which is as reciprocal on her fide: a ftate which will
make even captivity tolerable. If one is lick, the other is melancholy
; and if death ftiould follow, it is not often, that the for-
rowful relift furvives long after. They are exported from Africa
in great numbers, but not above one in ten furvive the paffage
to Europe, though they often live many years after their arrival.
They are kept chiefly for their external beauty and docility of
manners, rather than any thing elfe; for they do not talk, and the
jjoife they make is far from agreeable.
* We hear of them like wife at Surinam, of which place they are not natives ;
for M. Fermin fpeaks of them by the name of Perrucbe de Guinea Defer, de
Surinamii. p. 178»
La petite Perruche des Indes, Brif. orn. iv. p. 590. N° 86*
Smalleft red and green Indian Parrot, Ednv. i. t. 6.
S IZ E the laft. Bill bright orange: (kin round the eyes of a
pale flelh-colour: top of the head red, or deep orange: reft
of the body green, paleft beneath: the lower half of the rump
and upper tail coverts red, like that of the head: infide of the
quills and under the tail blueilh green: legs and claws flelh-
colour.
This came from the Eafi-Indies. Buffon feems to think it a
variety of the laft; but the red on the head is not lituated the
fame, and the great difference in the colour of the rump incline
me to think otherwile $ at leaft, I have ventured here to place it
as a diftinft lpecies, till further obfervation.
La petite1 Perruche des Philippines, Brif. or-», iv. p. 392. N° 87. t. 30. f. 1.
Le Coulaciffi, Buf. oif vi. p. 169.
Perruches des Philippines, PI. e»l. 320. £ 1 .2 . mâle & fmelle.
SIZE of a Houfe Sparrow: length five inches. Bill red: general
colqur of the plumage green, brighteft beneath : forehead,
throat, and fore part of the neck, red : the head yellow
green- : beneath the hind head is a tranfverfe orange band : rump
and tail coverts red: greater quills blackilh, with deep green
edges : tail rounded, and almoft covered by the red upper tail coverts
: legs and claws red.
IiS .
RED AND
GREEN INDIAN
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n
P l a c e *
119.
PHILIPPINE
PARRAKEET.
D e s c r i p t io n ,