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XXXIV. Extracts from the MivvrE-Book of the Linnean SociETY of 
1832. 
Lonpon. 
March 20. READ a Description of a new Species of Parrakeet from New Hol- 
May 1. 
land. By Mr. Lionel Dietrichsen, F.L.S. "This new species belongs 
to the genus Trichoglossus of Vigors, and the following are its cha- 
racter and description : 
 T.PonPHyRockPHALUS. Front yellow. Crown purple. Neck, back, 
wings and tail green. "Throat, breast and belly French grey. Shoul- 
ders blue. Nuchal collar pale yellow-brown. 
Front yellow, getting red, and becoming broader as it approaches 
the region of the eyes; ears yellow; crown purple; back of the 
neck light yellow-green, which colour is separated from the darker 
green of the back by a broad nuchal collar of pale yellow-brown, 
which extends beyond the top of the wings to the sides of the breast ; 
the back wing-coverts and exterior shafts of the wing- and tail- 
feathers green; throat, breast, and belly pale French grey; the 
feathers of the sides yellow, which colour is also observable on the 
under tail-coverts; shoulders bright blue ; under wing-coverts scar- 
let; interior webs of the tail-feathers yellow, of the quills black. 
Wings pointed ; first and second quills equal and longest, reach- 
ing half the length of the tail; tail acuminated ; legs short; tarsi 
slender, reticulated ; beak much arched, black, the under mandible 
obscured by setaceous feathers, extending forward. 
Length 7 inches; wings from the carpal joint, 4 inches; middle 
tail-feathers, from insertion to tip, 22 inches; lateral 2 inches; beak 
lan inch; tarsi ;ths of an inch. 
The Secretary read a letter addressed to the President by H. S. 
Foljambe, Esq. F.L.S., giving an account of the Falco rufipes of 
Bechstein, having been shot near Doncaster in April 1830. Three 
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