Psiltacus Pj/rrhopterus. 535 



specimen. The species does not seem to have been noticed since 

 his first description of it : M. Kuhl having referred it, in his Mo- 

 nograph, to those species vrhich he pronounced dubious, or en- 

 tirely unknown to him. It belongs to a group very distinct in 

 itself, but of which, although I can discern the leading characters, 

 I do not feel satisfied respecting the limits. I shall therefore refer 

 it for the present to the comprehensive genus of Psittacus. 



Pyruiiopteuus. Lath. Ps. subinucrourus vijidis, vcrtiee regio- 

 neque paroika ccendezsy Jronte gutturc torqiieqnc obscuro 

 nuchali pallide cineraceo^ tedrldbus inferior ibus auraniiis. 

 Tab. Sup. 4. 

 Rostrum pedesque pallidi ; remiges interne fuscte, externe 

 ca^rulescentes : abdominis latera sub alis aurantia. h~ides nigrze. 

 Longitudo corporis 7\ ; rostri ^-^ ; tarsi -j?^. 

 Habitat in Insulis Sandvicensibus. 



Ps. pyrrhopterus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xxii. No. 7. 

 Orange-winged Parrakeet. Id. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 90. No. 16. 



From the distinguishing specifick character of the bright orange 

 colour of the inferiour wing coverts, I make no doubt that my 

 bird is the same as that described by Dr. Latham, although from 

 the diderence in some minute particulars I might perhaps con- 

 sider myself authorized to keep it distinct. He describes iiis 

 species as Brazilian in the " Index Ornithologicus :" but as he 

 originally stated his doubts on this point in the Supplement to his 

 " Synopsis," where he first named the species, saying that it 

 '' inhabits the Brazils, or is at least supposed to do so, being 

 brought into England by one of the ships trading to the South Sea 

 Avhale fishery," — we may venture, I presume, to take it for 

 granted that the locality of both our birds may be the same. In 

 Shaw's " Zoology," t'lc description of the species is merely a 

 repetition of that of Dr. Latliam. 



These little birds exhibit none of the bright colours that gene- 

 rally distinguish the Parrots ; but they possess a delicacy both in 

 form and plumage, that amply compensates for the want of the 

 more brilliant a])pcndages of their congeners. In tlicir manners 



