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and the legs and feet are grey. The tarsi are short, 

 indicating arboreal habits. 



Take it for all in all, 1 have never come across 

 a bird that I prefer to the one under consideration, 

 namely the Pileated or Crimson" Capped Parrakeet, 

 commonly described as Platycercus pileatus, though a 

 better name for it is Porphyrocephalus spurius, for it 

 differs in many respects from the typical Platycerd. 



