CHAPTER XXXVI. 



I His charming and little known species is but very 

 slightly larger than the Budgerigar, to which it 

 bears a considerable general likeness, as far as regards 

 the arrangement of its plumage, for in the matter ot 

 colouration it is very different. For example, its forehead 

 is bright turquoise blue, and the top, back and sides 

 of its neck, as well as the back and wings, are a bright 

 greyish-brown, every feather having a narrow wavy 

 edging of a darker shade, exactly as in the case ot 

 the more familiar Warbling Grass-Parrakeet, while the 

 breast and all the lower parts of the body, instead ol 

 being green, as in the latter, are a very charming shade 

 of salmon-red, every feather, however, being edged with 

 a lighter tint of the same hue, unlike the Budgerigar 

 in this respect, which displays no wavy lines in the 

 same position. The middle tail feathers have white 

 tips, and the long under-tail-coverts are bluish grey 

 with white rounded ends. Proceeding backwards from 

 the eye, but with a downward tendency, is a narrow 



