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with lemon-yellow ; under surface pale greenish yellow, tinged 

 with lemon-yellow, more or less marked along the shaft with 

 pale yellow, which is narrowly margined with brownish black ; 

 some of the feathers have transverse bands of the same colour ; 

 the top of the head brownish black, margined outerly with 

 sap-green, tinged in some places with verdigris, and marked 

 in the middle with pale yellow ; the front cheeks, ear-coverts, 

 and the projecting feathers of the face pale umber, marked in 

 the middle with yellowish white ; bill white ; feet plumbeous- 

 black. 



Total length 2 feet 4 inches ; bill 1 inch 8 lines ; wings 11^ ; 

 tail 9 J ; tarsi If. 



Genus NESTOR, Wagler. 



Proposed for the Psittacus hi/popolius, the only species of 

 the form then known, but of which three others have since 

 been discovered. 



Sp. 13. NESTOR HYPOPOLIUS. 



Ka-ka Parrot. 



Psittacus hypopolius, Forst. Draw., No. 50. 



meridiunalis, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 333. 



nestor, Lath. Ind. Orn,, vol. i. p. 110. 



australis, Shaw, Mus. Lever., pi. at p. 87. 



[Kakadoe) nestor, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Act. pp. 12, 86. 



Nestor hypopolius, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. &c,, pp. 505, 696. 

 Southern Brown Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 264. 

 Nestor novce-zelandia, Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 19L 

 Centrourus australis, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 303, 

 Ka-ka, Natives of New Zealand. 



Nestor hypopolius, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., Supplement, pL 



Although New Zealand has been known to us since the 

 days of our celebrated voyager Captain Cook, and been a 

 British possession for so many years, but little has been 

 recorded respecting the habits and economy of this species of 



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