Masked Senegal?

[LMPego]

I was at Ardastra Gardens and Zoo in Nassau last week and they had a pair of Senegals that had a black bar across their eyes almost like a raccoon, but straight-edged. The tag only said "Poicephalus Senegalus". I've never seen these before and they were so cool looking. Does anyone know what sub-species they might be or has anyone seen this type of Senegal before?

[arwen]

never saw it and cant find a pic of it online but it sounds like a mutation, strange that there are two of them, were they related?
the 3 subspecies of senegals are red belly, orange belly and yellow belly(cant remember the 'proper' names:P) and they all look the same 'cept the belly color.

[LMPego]

Here's what I've learned. The periopthamalic ring in Poicephalus in general is more pronounced in the wild. In captivity, some breeders see a darkening of the ring when the birds are in season.

If you go to www.images.google.com and put in "Poicephalus Senegalus", you will get about 5 pages of images and you can see the differences in the eye rings. None of these are as pronounced as what we saw, but now I understand what we were looking at.

[arwen]

ahh right, mine just seem to have lighter gray(like silver) ear(?) patches