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the abdomen ; the rich band of scarlet which ornaments the 

 front of the P. semitorquatm is also wanting in the present 

 bird, or if not entirely, the slightest indication of it and that 

 only in the finest old males is to be seen. The only portion 

 of Australia from which I have received specimens of this bird 

 is Port Lincoln, The sexes present a similar contrast in the 

 lesser size and less brilliant style of colouring of the female. 



Head and upper part of the neck black, the cheek-feathers 

 tipped with deep blue; at the back of the neck a broad 

 crescent of bright yellow ; chest, back, and wings dark green, 

 passing into verditer-green on the outer webs of the wing- 

 coverts J rump and upper tail-coverts grass-green ; two centre 

 tail-feathers deep green, the next on each side deep green, 

 tipped with bluish white, the remainder deep green at the 

 base, passing into bluish white, the blue on the outer margins 

 of the feathers being of lazuline hue ; centre of the abdomen 

 deep gamboge-yellow ; remainder of the under surface yellow- 

 ish grass-green ; primaries, secondaries, and spurious wing- 

 coverts black, with the base of their external webs rich deep 

 blue ; bill horn-colour ; feet dark brown. 



Sp. 415. PLATYCERCUS PENNANTII. 



Pennant's Parrakeet. 



Psittacus pennantii, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 90. 



gloriosus, Shaw. Nat. Misc., pi. 53. 



splendidus, Shaw, Mus. Lev., pi. 7. p. 27. 



Perruche a large queue, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des Perr., pis. 78, 79. 

 Pennantian Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. i. p. 61 ; vol. ii. p. 83. 

 Psittacus elegans, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat,, vol. i. p. 318 

 Platijceixus peiuiantii, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol, xv. p. 280. 

 Dulang and Julang, Aborigines of New South Wales, 



Platycercus pennantii, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 23. 

 This beautiful bird is very generally dispersed over New 



