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shaded with violet, red, and white. The hen is chiefly 

 green and yellow, with crimson feathers on the head 

 and breast. 



The ROSE-HILL PARRAKEET, sometimes described 

 under the name of the Rosella Parrot, is another 

 beautiful Platycercus, with a glowing scarlet head and 

 breast. The feathers of the back are very dark black- 

 green, broadly edged with bright green ; the upper 

 tail-coverts are entirely of this beautiful leaf-green, the 

 tail itself being shaded with green and blue. The 

 wings are dark green and yellow, with lilac shoulders, 

 the under part of the body is yellow and shading into 

 green. 



The BULLA BULLA PARRAKEET has a black head, 

 with a glow of violet-blue on the cheeks and chin, and 

 a lemon-yellow collar. The breast and upper part of 

 the body are deep green, and the lower part pale 

 green and yellow. The quills of the wings are black 

 tipped with blue, and the two outer feathers of the tail 

 are blue, the others green. All these Parrakeets have 

 very long tails. They do very well in confinement, 

 but ought not to be shut up in small cages. Their 

 natural food consists of corn and grass-seeds, varied 

 by grubs and insects. 



The PARRAKEET COCKATOO, or COCKATEEL 

 (Nymphicus or Calopsitta Novce Hollandice] is a most 

 beautiful and elegantly shaped bird, distinguished by 

 its peculiar pointed crest of light feathery filaments, 



