PSITTACUS chryseiirus, 

 GoIde?i't ailed Varrot. 



Generic Character. — See Pi. 1. 



Specific Character. 



P. nitide viridis ; front e genisque fulvo colore tinctis ; rectricium 



brevium, parium, pennis mediis viridibtis, cctteris aureis, omnium 



apicibus nigris. 

 Shining green ; front and sides of the head tinged with fulvous ; 



tail short, even, tipt with black, the two middle feathers green, 



the rest golden. 



1 WAS fortunate in procuring both sexes of this very rare 

 bird in the vicinity of Pernambuco, being the only indi- 

 viduals I ever met with in Brazil : they appeared as if tired 

 from a long flight, which led me to suppose they had 

 migrated from the interior towards the coast. I do not 

 find the species noticed by any writer, nor have I seen it in 

 any collection. 



The total length is six inches and a half ; the plumage 

 generally of a rich emerald green, rather obscure on the top 

 and sides of the head, but very bright on the back and rump, 

 where it is tinged with blue ; the feathers round the base of 

 the bill, front, and sides of the head, are tinged with buff 

 colour ; the scapulary feathers (protecting the base of the 

 wings and lesser quills) are chocolate brown, the quills 

 themselves black, margined externally with green and 

 internally with olive. The most beautiful part of the bird 

 is the tail, which is short and even, each feather having the 

 tips margined by a narrow line of black, the middle pair 

 being green, and all the rest of a rich golden yellow colour; 

 the under plumage and wing covers are nearly of as deep a 

 green as the wings, but on the flanks there is a tinge of 

 olive. 



PI. 141. 



