202 UNDULATED XAXODES. 



parts of the body are of an oil -green, with darker 

 undulations, the lower parts are plain yellowish -green. 

 The two intermediate tail feathers are green at the 

 base, passing towards the tips into azure-blue, the 

 lateral feathers are green, with a broad yellow fascia 

 in the middle. The bill and legs are grey. 



In near connection with the birds we have just 

 been describing, stands the genus Pezoporus, Illiger, 

 represented by the Pezoporus formosus, Illiger, the 

 Ground Parrot of Latham's General History. The 

 characters of distinction are drawn from the still 

 greater elongation of the tarsi and toes, and the 

 usually straight claws, indicating habits strictly terres- 

 trial, with trifling or greatly diminished powers of 

 prehension. The tail also is less depressed, and the 

 feathers are narrower and more pointed than in Na- 

 nodes venustus and pulchellus, with those slight 

 modifications of character it might perhaps with 

 equal propriety be considered a constituent or aber- 

 rant member of the genus to which they belong, pro- 

 bably its rasorial type. We retain it, however, in its 

 present station, until a stricter analysis of the family 

 has been instituted. It is represented by the next 

 figure under the title of the 



