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multicolor) is so named from its variegated plumage, 

 the ground colour of which is blue-green, but many of 

 the feathers are tinted with black, blue, and red. The 

 forehead is bright yellow, and there is a patch of 

 deeper orange on the shoulders : the quills are black, 

 shaded with blue and green. A bar of pale green runs 

 across the lower part of the back, and the upper tail- 

 coverts are red. The thighs and feathers between the 

 legs are red, the throat and stomach are green, the 

 rest of the lower part of the body is of a pale straw- 

 colour, tinged with green, and the tail is blue and 

 green, some of the feathers edged with white. 



The RED-RUMP PARRAKEET (Psephotus Hcemato- 

 notus) is very like this bird, but the male has a broad 

 patch of bright red on the lower part of the back. 



Several species of the beautiful little GRASS PAR- 

 RAKEET, of the Euphema genus, have been brought 

 to England, and are mostly easily tamed, and are 

 pleasant little pets. 



a glossy green bird, with the lower part of the body 

 of a pale orange, is so called because the face of the 

 male is of a brilliant turquoise blue, and the shoulders 

 and outer feathers of the wings have the same colour. 

 He has a patch of bright red on his wing-coverts, but 

 the hen is without this, and has only a narrow band of 

 blue on the forehead. These birds will readily breed 

 in this country ; many have been reared in the Zoo- 



