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SAPPHIRE-CROWNED PSITTACULE. 



Psittaculus galgulus.-< >WAGLER. 

 PLATE XXIV. 



Psittaculus vernalis, Swains. Id Series Illust. (young male). 

 Psittacus galgulus, Lath. Ind. Orn. v. i. p. 130, sp. 148. 

 (exclu. var. B.) Psitt. vernalis, Id. i. 130, sp. 147 __ 

 Petite Perruche de Perou, PI. Enl. 190. f. 2. Sapphire- 

 crowned Paraket, Edwards, pi. 293. f. 2 Lath. Syn. 

 i. 312, sp, 117 Vernal Parrakeet, Lath. Syn.^-Swains. 

 2d Series Illust. 



MR SWAINSON, in the Second Series of his beau- 

 tiful Illustrations, has figured and described this 

 bird nearly in the same state it is represented upon 

 oar plate, under the title of Psittaculus vernalis, 

 supposing it a distinct species, or at least not aware 

 that it was the young or immature male of the 

 Psittacus galgulus of authors. This, at least, is 

 the opinion of Wagler, who, in his " Monographia 

 Psittacorum" has described it as such, and brought 

 the synonymes of these two supposed species toge- 

 ther. As to the correctness of his views in so doing, 

 we are bound, in the first instance, to consider them 

 as being so, presuming that the evidence upon which 

 he established their identity was satisfactory and con- 



