Psittacus Pyrrhopltrus. 535 



specimen. The species does not seem to have been noticed since 

 his first description of it: M. Kuhl having referred it, in his Mo- 

 nograph, to those species which he pronounced dubious, or en- 

 tirely unknown to him. It belongs to a group very distinct in 

 itself, but of which, although I can discern the leading characters, 

 I do not feel satisfied respecting the limits. I shall therefore refer 

 it for the present to the comprehensive genus of Psittacus. 



Pyrriiopterus. Lath. Ps. submacrourus viridis, vcrtiee regio- 

 neque parotica cceruleis, fronte gutture torqueque obscuro 

 nuchali pallide cineraceo, tectricibus inferioribus aurantiis. 

 Tab. Sup. 4. 

 Rostrum pedesque pallidi ; remiges interne fusca?, externe 

 caerulescentes : abdominis latera sub alis aurautia. Irides nigra?. 

 Longitudo corporis 7\ ; roslri *^ ; tarsi T 6 ^. 

 Habitat in Insulis Sandvicensibus. 



Ps. pyrrhopterus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xxii. No. 7. 

 Orange-winged Parrakeet. Id. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 90. No. 16. 



From the distinguishing specifick character of the bright orange 

 colour of the inferiour wing coverts, I make no doubt that my 

 bird is the same as that described by Dr. Latham, although from 

 the difference in some minute particulars I might perhaps con- 

 sider myself authorized to keep it distinct. He describes his 

 species as Brazilian in the " Index Ornithologicus :" but as he 

 originally stated his doubts on this point in the Supplement to his 

 " Synopsis," where he first named the species, saying that it 

 " inhabits the Brazils, or is at least supposed to do so, being 

 brought into England by one of the ships trading to the South Sea 

 whale fishery," — we may venture, I presume, to take it for 

 granted that the locality of both our birds may be the same. In 

 Shaw's K Zoology," the description of the species is merely a 

 repetition of that of Dr. Latham. 



These little birds exhibit none of the bright colours that gene- 

 rally distinguish the Parrots ', but they possess a delicacy both in 

 form and plumage, that amply compensates for the want of the 

 more brilliant appendages of their congeners. In their manners 



