PSITTACUS Cayennensis. 

 Cayenne gold-winged Parakeet. 



Generic Character. 



liostnn?i hreve, crassum, validksimum, ad bafin cute tectum ; mandihnla svpe- 

 7'iore adunca ; injh'iore sub-recurvafci, breviore. Inures rotundce, nudtr, 

 ferme verticales. Pedes scansorii. 



Bill short, thick, very strong, covered at the base by a cere ; upper mandible 

 sharply hooked ; under mandible obtuse, curving upwards, and much 

 shorter. Nostrils round, naked^ nearly vertical. Feet scansorial. 



Specific Character. 

 P. virldis, alis spurlls aurantUs, remigibux cxterioinbus basi caruleis, caudd 

 hrevi cuneatn. 



Green Parakeet, with the spurious wings golden-orange: outer quills blue 



at their base. Tail short, wedged. 

 Le Perruche a tache souci. Le Vaill. pi. 58, .59. p. 169. 



We only thoroughly identified this beautiful little bird, by an 

 inspection of the costly work of Le Vaillant on this family, in the 

 Banksian Library : for the description of the orange-winged 

 Parakeet of Dr. Latham is not applicable ; and Dr. Shaw has 

 persisted in the old error of considering this species a variety of 

 the Toui Parakeet, although the question had been put at rest 

 by the original description and sound reasons of Le Vaillant. 

 There is a wide difference between naturalists who compile, and 

 form their theories from books, and those who study nature, and 

 think for themselves ; and nothing will result from the first but 

 mischief to the science, and perplexity to the student. 



Our figure is from a specimen brought from Demerara by 

 C. Edmonston, Esq. ; another is in the possession of A. Mac- 

 Leay, Esq. Though rare in our cabinets, M. Le Vaillant says 

 it is common in Cayenne. He has given a beautiful figure of 

 the female, which is entirely green. 



Total length six inches. Plumage above entirely green, be- 

 neath paler and inclining to yellow ; just under the lower man- 

 dible is a small snuff-coloured spot, and a very narrow line of 

 the same in front just above the nostrils ; the quills dark-green, 

 the greater ones on their outside base are blue, with which the 

 head is also tinged. The spurious wings are entirely of a rich 

 and clear orange. Liner wing-covers green. Quills inside 

 greenish-blue, except on each side the shafts, where there is a 

 line of black. Tail short, cuneated, hardly projecting an inch 

 beyond the wings, both above and below green : the interior 

 margin dirty-yellow, the feathers pointed. Bill and legs flesh- 

 colour. 

 PI. 1. 



