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secondaries, green tipped with blue-black ; tail feathers 

 with the exception of the two outer ones on each side, 

 green, bluish at the tips ; tlie extreme outer feathers 

 are black, with a portion of their outer webs edged 

 with blue ; the next feather on each side has its inner 

 webs black and its outer ones green ; underside of 

 tail feathers black with the lateral feathers splashed 

 with red at the base of inner webs ; iris, brown, (my 

 bird is only in its second year and possibly not yet 

 fully mature), said to vary from brown to rich yellow, 

 this is probably sexual ; beak, dusky-horn colour, 

 lighter on the culmen and edges of the mandibles ; 

 legs and feet, blackish-grey. Total length 14", tail 6-3". 



Adult female. As to this I can only give secondary 

 information. Count Salvadori thinks the female lacks 

 the red areas at the base of the lateral tail feathers ; it 

 would appear as if he were correct as the bird figured 

 in Greene's "Parrots in Captivity" was afterwards 

 ascertained to be a female ; the said figure has the 

 underside of tail entirely black, and I cannot think 

 the artist would have overlooked this, the colouring 

 being quite distinct, and not at all obscured. The 

 late Dr. Greene had an undoubted male later, which 

 he describes as having the head, face, and pointed 

 nuchal feathers creamy white ; also that his female 

 was smaller, and had the same portions of her plumage 

 duller and grayer than those of the male ; it would 

 therefore appear as if these distinctions were fairly 

 accurate, and that the accompanying figure is that of 

 the male. In confirmation of this I may say my bird 

 favours the ladies, which is quite usual with parrots of 

 all species of the male sex. 



Before leaving the description of plumage, I must 



