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Sp. 400. POLYTELIS BARRABANDI. 



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 Barraband's Parrakeet. 



Psittacus bm^ahandii, Swains. Zool. 111., 1st ser. pi. 59. 



Palaornis barrahandi, Vig. in Zool. Journ., vol. ii. p. 56. 



Polytelis barrabandi, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., pp. 489 and 519. 



Scarlet-breasted Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 121. 



Palceornis? rosaceus, Vig. in Zool. Journ., vol. v. p. 274 j female. 



Platycercus barrabandi, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 287. 



Barrabandius rosaceus, Bonap. Consp. Geu. Av., torn. i. p. 2, Barra- 



bandius, sp. 1. 

 Psittacus swainsoni, Desm. 

 Platycercus rosaceus, G. E. Gray List, of Spec, of Birds in Brit. Mus., 



part iii. sec. ii., Psittacidce, p. 9. 

 Psittacus sagittifer barrabandi et rosaceus, Bourj. de St.-Hil. Supp. to 



Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. des Perr., pis. 4 et 6. 

 Green-leek of the Colonists of New South Wales. 



Polytelis barrabandi, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. pi. 15. 



In the great family of Parrots, few species are more ele- 

 gant in form or more exquisitely coloured than the present, 

 which is a native of the interior of New South Wales, and 

 Victoria. Living individuals are frequently brought down to 

 Sydney by the draymen of the Argyle county, where it appears 

 to be a common species. VV^hen we know more of its history 

 I expect it will be found to inhabit similar localities, and 

 enjoy a similar range to the P. melanura, and that the two 

 species as closely assimilate in their habits and economy as 

 they do in form. It is somewhat singular, that the females of 

 this and the succeding bird should have been described by 

 the late Mr. Vigors as distinct species from the males. 



Prom the length of its wings and the general contour of its 

 body, we may be assured that its power of flight is very 

 great, and that it doubtless removes from one part of the con- 

 tinent to another whenever nature prompts it so to do. 



The female, though equally as graceful in form as the male, 

 is nevertheless much inferior to him in the coloiu"ing of her 



