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brownish green ; feathers which rest against the gape produced 
into hair-like points; under parts dull silvery geeen, with 
brownish wash ; nape silvery green, with almost a collar of dark 
brown; quill-feathers, the third and fourth are the longest in the 
wing, dark brown, the basal part of the first four feathers blue on 
the outer web; inner web dark brown, toothed with pale yellow; 
the rest of the primaries of a brighter blue on the outer web ; 
secondaries bluish green on the outer web, inner web brown, 
toothed irregularly with pale yellow; under wing-coverts yellow 
and bright scarlet, slightly tipped with brown; tail, shaft of feathers 
produced beyond the web, dull green shot with blue, with a broad 
mark or band of dark brown near the end, tip pale brown, inner 
webs toothed with yellow, under side of tail-feathers washed with 
yellow; lower part of back and upper tail-coverts green, shaded 
with dark orange-red, margined with brown; vent and under tail- 
coverts yellowish green. Bill, following the curve from gape to 
point, two inches ; wings from flexure, twelve inches nine lines ; 
tail, seven inches seven lines; tarsus, one inch seven lines; 
largest toe with nail, two inches three lines; total length from 
point of bill to extremity of tail, twenty-one inches. 
Female.—The plumage is rather duller than that of the male, 
the under nape of neck closely marked with dusky brown. Bill, 
two inches; wings from flexure, twelve inches four lines; tail, 
seven inches; tarsus, one inch five lines; largest toe and nail, 
two inches three lines ; total length, twenty inches nine lines. 
[A living example of this Parrot, which has rarely been brought to 
Europe, may now be seen in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park.— Ep. | 
NOTES. AND -OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH 
STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA. 
By Joun T. Carrineton, F.L.S., anp Epwarp Loverr. 
(Continued from p. 205.) 
Genus Acuazus, Leach. 
This genus is at present represented in Britain by one species 
only. It somewhat resembles the genus Stenorhynchus, but the 
rostrum is stunted, the carapace more tuberculated and larger in 
proportion to the length of the legs; the eyes are placed on long 
