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broad yellow ftripe: the two middle tail feathers are gteen, marked 
with feveral oblique bars of black; the others yellow, barred in the 
fame manner; and all the feathers towards the ends growing paler, 
and without bars: the tail is very cuneiform in fhape. 
This is. a moft elegant and beautiful fpecies, inhabiting New South 
Wales, and other parts of New Holland, where it is known by the 
name of Goolingnang : it is found in tolerable plenty ; but rarely if ever 
feen except on the ground, and particularly in moift places: the legs 
and toes are more flender than ufual in this genus, and the claws 
more ftraight. It is not known to perch on trees like other parrots, 
but conftantly feen to rife from among the grafs, and to alight therein 
again almoft immediately. 
Pfitt. pacificus, Jud. Orn.i. p. 104.65. War. «. 
Pacific Parrot, Lath. Syn.i.p. 252.56. War. 
N this the bill and legs are black : the fore part of the head crimfon; 
under each eye a large patch of the fame, and another on each 
fide of the rump; but the general colour is deep green, the under 
parts paler: the five firft quills are dufky, and both wings and tail 
dufky beneath. 
This inhabits New Zealand. 
Pfitt. auftralis, nd. Orn. i. p. 104. 66: 
Crimfon-fronted Parakeet, Nat. Mi/c. vol. 3. t. 87. 
HIS is the fize of the Pacific Parrot; \ength nine inches: the 
bill is brown, with a red tip: general colour of the plumage deep 
brown: forehead as far as the crown, and the bafe of the bill all 
round, fine crimfon; from the eye on each fide defcends a large patch 
of the fame: the hind parts of the crown and the back part of the neck 
half 
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