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PENNANTIAN BROAD-TAIL. 



Platycercus Pennantii VIG. & HORSJ-. 



PLATE XXV. 



Platycercus Pennantii, Vig. $ Horsf. Linn. Trans, v. 15. 

 p. 250 Wagler, Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. $c. p. 535, pi. 17 



Psitt. Pennantii, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 90, No. 26 Psitt. 



gloriosus, Shaw's Nat. Mus. pi. 53. Psitt. elegans, Kuhl^ 

 Nov. Acta, <Jc., v. 10. p. 55, pi. 89 Perruche a large 

 queue, Le Vaill. Hist, des Psitt. pi. 79. Pennantian Par- 

 rot, Phill Bot. Bay, pi. p. 154. Whitens Journ. pi. in 

 p. 174. Lath. Gen. Hist. 11. p. 131, No. 34. 



THE rich crimson- red which forms the ground 

 colour of this beautiful species, recals to mind the 

 Scarlet Lories, and it is no doubt from this general 

 resemblance the name of Lory has been given to it 

 by the settlers in New Holland, of which country 

 it is a native. It appears to be numerous and wide- 

 ly dispersed, congregating in large flocks, and fre- 

 quently doing considerable damage to the wheat and 

 Indian corn the Cerealea constituting a favourite 

 food with several species of this genus. On this 

 account it is persecuted by the farmer, who endea- 

 vours to reduce their numbers by the gun, as well as 

 by traps, in which they are readily taken. The ex- 



