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XXXIV. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society of 



London. 

 1832. 

 March 20. xvEAD a Description of a new Species of Pai'rakeet from New Hol- 

 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. poRPHYRocEPHALus. Front ycUow. 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, 2f inches ; lateral 2 inches ; beak 

 ^ an inch ; tarsi |ths of an inch. 



May \. The Secretary read a letter addressed to the President by H. S. 



Foljambe, Esq. F.L.S. , giving an account of the Falco riifipes of 

 Bechstein, having been shot near Doncaster in April 1830. Three 



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