purple parrot
The general coloration of the Purple Parrot (Pionus fuscus) is dark violet blue. Small patch of feathers on the front of the lords; at the base of the cere, pink; otherwise, lords, cheeks, forehead and crown, pale lavender blue with white on the bases the feathers on the crown, which gives a faint mottled appearance in some birds; ear coverts darker and more gray, forming a distinctive patch; Feathers on the throat and sides of the neck of white with narrow stripe brown in the center and tips of pale blue, forming the whole an incomplete necklace.
Feathers on the mantle and back, leaden brown with pale margins, giving the scalloped effect; Scapulars, rump and corarteras supracaudales, darker leaden brown, with pale margins very weak (or absent)
Description:
24 to 26 cm. of height and between 179 and 222g. of weight.