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PESQUET'S DASYPTILUS. 



Dasyptilus Pequetii WAGLBR. 

 PLATE XVII. 



Dasyptilus Pequetii, Wagler Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. $c. 

 p. 502, 601 Psittacus Pequetii, Less. Illus. ZooL pi. 1. 



NAMED from the hairy or setaceous nature of the 

 feathers upon the head and neck, and the general ri- 

 gid nature of the whole plumage. The dominant 

 colour is black, in which respect it resembles the 

 Geringores, and the bird last described, but the form 

 of the bill (without adducing other characters) is 

 so different from that of the species alluded to, as 

 to make it very doubtful whether the station as- 

 signed to it is that to which it properly belongs. 

 For ourselves, we have had no opportunity of exa- 

 mining or comparing it with other species, as it is a 

 bird of great rarity, and but lately discovered, and we 

 are indebted to the liberality of the Noble President 

 of the Linn scan Society, for permission given to Mr 

 Lear to make the necessary drawing, from a speci- 

 men in the collection at Knowsly Park. It is a bird 



