BARRABAND RING-PARR AKEET. 



PalfBornis Barrabandi. VIGORS. 

 PLATE I. 



Palaeornis Barrabandi, Vigors, in Zoo/. Journ. vol. ii. p. 56, 

 Sp. 10. Psittacus Barrabandi, Swains. Zoo/. Illust. vol. i. 

 p. 59. Polytelis Barrabandi, Wagler, in Abhand. &c., 

 p. 519 Scarlet-breasted Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn. vol. ii. 

 p. 121, P. 24, Ed. 2. 



IN this handsome bird, we have one of those in- 

 teresting forms which so beautifully connect groups, 

 otherwise distant and far removed ; tor though the 

 character and shape of the tail, the well-defined ring 

 or neck-collar, the proportions of the wings, &c., evi- 

 dently place it in this genus, its elevated tarsi and 

 feet shew an approach to the Broad-tailed Divi- 

 sion ( Platytercinae), which stands at the further ex- 

 tremity of the Psittacean Family. It is also a native 

 of New Holland, in which interesting country so 

 many species of Platycercus have been discovered, 

 the rest of the ring-parrakeets, being the greater part 

 of them natives of Continental India, and its neigh- 

 bouring islands, and one or two are also met with 



