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under tail-coverts turquoisc-blue ; all the upper surface dark 

 olive-brown, the feathers of the wings edged with greyish white; 

 centre of the abdomen salmon-red ; cheeks and the remainder 

 of the under surface brown, strongly tinged with salmon-red; 

 six middle tail-feathers deep brown, the external webs tinged 

 with blue ; the three outer ones on each side brown at the 

 base, with their external webs blue and the tips white ; bill 

 dark horn-colour; legs and feet brown. 



Genus MELOPSITTACUS, Gould. 



The only known species of this form is strictly gregarious, 

 assembles in vast flocks, and is admirably adapted for plains 

 and downs covered with grasses, upon the seeds of which it 

 entirely subsists. 



Sp. 439. MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS. 



Warbling Grass-Parrakeet. 



Psittacus undulatus, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 673. 

 Undulated Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist., voh ii. p. 179, pi. 26. 

 Nanodes undulatus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 277. 

 Euphema undulata, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., &c., pp. 493, 545, 



and 707. 

 Psittacus (Conurus) undulatus, ^^ag\. Mon. Psitt., pp. 8, 49. 

 Sagiftifer minor undulatus, Bourj. de St.-Hil. Perr., tab, 8. 

 Canary Parrot of the Colonists of New South Wales. 

 Betchen'ygah of the Natives of the Liverpool Plains. 



Melopsittacus undulatus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. 

 pi. 44. 



Among the numerous members of the PsittacidcB inhabit- 

 ing Austraha, this lovely little bu'd is preeminent both for beauty 

 of plumage and elegance of form, which, together with its ex- 

 treme cheerfulness of disposition and sprightliness of manner, 

 render it an especial favourite with all who have had an op- 

 portunity of seeing it alive ; the more so as this animated dis- 



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