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40. Short-tailed Parrakeet. 



Short-tailed Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 274 (1822) ; Finsch, Papag. 

 ii. p. 929 (1868). 



" Length to the rump 4 inches ; bill J of an inch. The colour of dirty box ; 

 the upper mandible more straight than usual in the genus, elongated at the 

 point, but very little bent, the under reaching to about half the length ; 

 plumage in general fine light grass-green, inclining to brown on the wing- 

 coverts; rump dusky crimson ; tail scarcely half an inch long; from the base 

 to the middle blue, the rest white; legs pale brown." (Latham.) 



Hab. Unknown. 



Described from a drawing by a Mr. Woodford. 



41. CllRYSOTIS CHLORIS. 



Neuer Amazonen-Papagei, Sacc. in Weinland's Zoolog. Garten, 1864, p. 21 ; 



Finsch, Papag. ii. p. ."'.»> 1 1868). 

 Chrysotis chloris, Finsch, ibid. 



Size of a Fowl. Green, above darker; below more yellow ; the inner series 

 of the marginal wing-coverts red ; tail-feathers green at the base, with a large 

 red spot in the middle, at the end yellow-green ; bill white at the base, black 

 at the tip. 



Not sufficiently described. 



42. PsiTTACUS GERIXI. 



Psittacus Brasiliensis viridis eapite albo, Gerini, Orn. i. p. 95, t. cix. (1767). 

 Psittacus gerini, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 119, n. 112 (1790); Bechtt. Kurje 



Ueb. p. 96 (1811-12): Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 311 (1817); Kuhl, Cotisp. 



Psitt. p. 95 (1820); Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1365 (1823); Finsch, 



Papag. ii. p. 518 (1868). 

 Gerini's Parrot, Lath. Syn. Sappl. ii. p. 93, n. 23 (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



ii. p. 236 (1822). 

 Psittacus leucocephalus, var. 8, Wagl. Mori. Psitt. p. 600 (1832); Hakn, 



Orn. ML, Papag. p. 76 (1836). 



Green, the feathers edged with blackish ; head entirely white; small wing- 

 coverts, some of the primaries, and the base of the tail red. 



The bird figured by Gerini, according to Dr. Finsch, is a variety of Chrysotis 

 collaria, but it appears to me to be quite different. 



43. Chrysotis prisca. 



Chrysotis prisca, Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 79. 

 Chrysotis priscus, Albrecht, Joum. f. Orn. 1862, p. 203. 



Under the above name Dr. Sclater has designated a certain Chrysotis, from 

 which the four species C. collaria, C. leucocephala, C. sallei, and C. vittata, 

 inhabiting as many West-Indian Islands, are supposed to have been evolved. 



44. Psittacus cyanolenus. 



Psittacus cyanolenus, Meyen, Verhandl. dcr Leop.-Carol. Acad., Suppl. i. 

 16 te Bande, p. 95 (1834) ; Finsch. Papag. ii. p. 930 (1868). 



Similar to P. garrulus, from which it differs only in having blue wings. Very 

 common in China. 



The bird mentioned by Meyen, according to Dr. Finsch, may be Aprosmicttis 

 hypophonius or a variety of Lorius garrulus, brought alive to China. 



