Broadtails, Etc. 139 



coverts pale lazuline blue ; no yellowish tinge on the lores as in the 

 female of N. pulchella ; no scarlet colour on the chest, which is 

 green ; upper parts, including the nape and crown, green with orange 

 tinge" (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. p. 577). 



Antipodes Island Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus unicolor). 

 "Female. — Of smaller size and paler plumage that the male; bill 

 greyish-white, the upper mandible brownish-black in its apical 

 portion, and with a clouded bluish spot in front of each nostril " 

 (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. p. 581). 



New Zealand Parr/ -xeet (Cyanorhamphus novce-zealandice). 



"Adult Female. — Like the male, only smaller, and the frontal 

 red cap not so conspicuous " (Salvadori, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. 

 p. 583). 



Saisset's Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus saisseli). 



A rarely imported local race of the preceding. The female is 

 smaller than the male. 



Golden-crowned Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus auriceps). 



The sexes are much alike, but the female is smaller than the 

 male. 



Alpine Parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus malherbei). 



No sexed examples in the Museum, but it is probable that the 

 female is smaller that the male. 



Horned Parrakeet (Nymphicus cornutus). 

 The male is larger and brighter in colouring than the female; his 

 beak is rather broader and more regularly tapered. 



Uv^ean Parrakeet (Nymphicus uvosensis). 

 The male is altogether a trifle brighter in colouring than the 

 female ; his beak is much heavier, particularly towards the tip, and 

 distinctly longer. 



Swift Parrakeet (Nanodes discolor). 

 The female is smaller and duller than the male. Her beak is 

 rather narrower, but with broader and shorter terminal hook. 



Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undtdatus). 

 The beak of the male is very slightly longer than that of the 

 female ; the cere is bright turquoise blue, whereas in the female it 

 is pale blue with whitish borders, changing in the breeding season 

 to coffee-brown The plumage of the sexes is much alike, but the 

 under parts of the male are perhaps of a rather bluer-green, especi- 

 ally on the under tail-coverts, than in the female, the yellow of the 

 throat and sides of head a shade deeper, and the black barring 

 more distinct. 



