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scarlet ; crown of the head deep piu'ple ; back of the head and 

 neck yellowish green ; wing-coverts and rump grass-green ; 

 shoulder light blue ; under surface of the wing crimson ; pri- 

 maries blackish brown, margined externally with deep green, 

 the extreme edge being greenish yellow ; tail green above, 

 golden beneath ; throat and under surface greenish grey, 

 passing into golden green on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; 

 bill black ; irides in some dark brown, in others light reddish 

 brown, with a narrow ring of orange round the pupil ; feet 

 bluish flesh-colour. 



Sp. 450. GLOSSOPSITTA PUSILLA. 



Little Lorikeet. 



Psittacus pusillm, Shaw in White's Journ., pi. in p. 262. 



nuchalis, Bechst. Uebers. der Yog., p. 81. 



{Conums) pusillus, Kuhl. Consp. Psitt., pp. 8, 47. 



Perruche a face rouge, Le Vaill. Perr., torn. i. p. 124, pi. 62. 



Small Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 88. 



Small Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 194. 



Trichoglossus pusillus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 293. 



Lathamus pusillus, Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 206. 



Glossopsitta pusilla, Bouap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 157. 



Jerryang, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Trichoglossus pusillus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. pi. 54. 



This familiar species, the least of the Australian Psittacidce, 

 enjoys a range of habitat precisely similar to that of the Glos- 

 sopsitta australis, being dispersed over the whole of New 

 South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania ; it is, however, 

 more sparingly diffused over the latter country. I found it 

 tolerably abundant, and killed several specimens on Maria 

 Island, near the entrance of Storm Bay. On the continent of 

 Australia it is not only to be found in the same districts and 

 at the same seasons of the year as G. australis, but it is more 

 frequently observed in company with that species than alone ; 

 flocks of each often occupying the same tree, and even the 



