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PA” ORY Re ie. 
and cuneiform, moft of its feathers of a deep blue: legs afh coloured: 
on the upper part of the wings a narrow line of a fine faxon green 
colour. 
The female is generally green, but the fore part of the neck inclines 
to olive brown: the belly alone is crimfon, and the rump blueifh : 
tail green above, beneath dufky. 
This inhabits New Holland, and is a remarkable variety, if indeed 
it be one; it differs firftly, in having thofe parts, which in the former 
are deep purple, of a moft beautiful crimfon; it has in common with 
the other, the blue crefcent behind the neck, and the blue rump ; 
but differs materially in having a vivid oblique pale blue-green band 
near the bend of the wing ; both the wings and quills are wholly green, 
without any mixture of blue on the edges; and in the female the tail 
is alfo green, but the crefcent at the back of the neck is wanting. 
Tabuan Parrot, White’s Fourn. t. p. 168. 169? 
N New Holland is obferved a Parrot very fimilar, which we may 
poffibly ftrain a point in ranking as a variety, as all the drawings 
which I have feen convey the idea of an even ended tail ; in feveral; 
the pale vivid ftreak on the wings is not confpicuous: the rump 
blue, but the blue at the bafe of the neck behind is wanting. 
~ One faid to be a female, was green, with a pale blue rump ; be- 
neath from the breaft crimfon; but between the breaft and belly 
only patched with crimfon: no crefcent at the back of the neck: 
wings and tail wholly green: the native name of this bird faid to 
be Wellat, It feems to me not improbable that fome of the above 
defcribed, may hereafter prove birds in incomplete plumage. 
