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ture to refer it to any described species, much less describe it as 

 new. From the strength and straightness of the bill, I believe it 

 to belong to your group Le'istes. 



29. 30. 31. Emerald Parrot^ Psitiacus smaragd'mus^ Gmel. — 

 I take it for granted that my birds are of the same species as that 

 brought home by M. Bougainville, and described under the above 

 name, although they do not exactly accord with the description of 

 the species giverv in the " Encyclopedie Methodique," No. 1398. 

 They are not " splendide virides," nor is the uropygium red. 

 The French writers remark on the singularity of Parrots being 

 found in high latitudes ; and in the Nat. Hist, of the Encyc. 

 Method., vol. ii. p. 321, the fact of M. Bougainville having brought 

 a specimen from the Strait is much doubted. Dr. Latham also has 

 his doubts on the subject. — Here however is fact against theory. 

 — Nor is this the only instance in point. Parrots,- sls you are well 

 aware, are brought from Macquarrie Island, which is in latitude 

 54| South, while the spot where I procured P. smaragdinus is 

 in 53| only. The species is very numerous, but specimens are diffi- 

 cult to be procured in consequence of the thickness of the under- 

 wood, which makes it no easy task to find them after they have 

 been shot. The species, as you will immediately perceive, belongs 

 to the group of Perruche-Aras, or your genus Psittacara, 



32 — 36 inclusive. — A species of Woodpecker from Port Famine, 

 that I think uiidescribed. There are three males and two females 

 in the collection. 



Picus Magellanicus. 



Pic. niger^ capite cristate colloque coccineis, remigibus alba 

 notatis. 



Faem. Capite cjHstato nigro, fronte mentoque coccineis. 



The male has the whole of the head, crest, and part of the neck 

 of a bright scarlet colour ; the base of the feathers being black. 

 The female has the same parts black, the scarlet colour being 

 restricted to a narrow space round the bill, including the front 

 and the fore part of the chin : the crest feathers are generally 

 longer than those of the male. The rest of the plumage in both 



