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four or five narrow lateral spots of yellow on their basal 

 half, probably being the remainders of yellow cross-bars. 

 Front and feathers behind the bare face pure black, crown 

 also black, each feather with a yellow cross-bar near the 

 base; neck mantle, back, all the upper and under wing- 

 coverts , throat , breast , abdomen and flanks black , very 

 conspicuously barred across with yellow , which color is 

 more or less represented by white on the upper wing- 

 coverts, each feather being barred across with four or five 

 yellow bands. Vent, under and upper tail-coverts yellow 

 with black shafts and very irregular black vermiculations; 

 quills black, primaries on basal half of inner web yellow, 

 varied with black , outer secondaries inside and outside 

 edged with yellowish white near the tip, inner secondaries 

 very broadly edged with yellow on both webs , this color 

 being speckled with black and leaving, on the innermost 

 secondaries, only a narrow central streak of black. Tail 

 yellow, the two central feathers on both webs and the 

 outer feathers on the outer web only, very richly speckled 

 with black. All the tail-feathers have the whole shaft and 

 a very narrow shaft-streak pure black. 



unless there can be disposed of larger material , especi- 

 ally of nestlings and young birds, we are not fully entitled 

 to decide whether this specimen will represent the mere 

 immature dress or if we have to deal with a case of xanth- 

 isme, not rarely observed amongst the Parrots. 



Leyden Museum, 19 November 1894. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVI. 



