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Inhabits Brazil. Of a beautiful deep green: the 

 beak white : the middle of the abdomen blue in the 

 male, green in the female : the tail rather long, and, 

 with the under sides of the wings, blue green : the 

 tip of the tail, and the outer web of its exterior fea- 

 thers and of the two outer quills blue. 



Sp, 6. Ps? brachyurus. Temminck. — Nova Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 



{Kuhl.) V. x.p. 72. 

 Ps. lined inter oculos et rostrum niidd ; rectrlcibiis quatuor ex- 



ternis hasi purpureis. 

 Parrot with a naked line between the beat and eyes ; the four 



outer tail-feathers purple at the base. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Length eight inches and a 

 quarter : pale green : tail short, quadrate ; its four 

 outer feathers purple at the base : a naked line be- 

 tween the beak and the eyes, furnished with a few 

 straggling hairs : beak stout. 



Sp. 7. Ps. menstruus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 540.— Guiana, &c. 

 Sp. 8. Ps. Maximiliani, Nova Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. (Kuhl.) 



V. X. p. 72. 

 Ps. suprh infraque olivaceo-viridis ; fronte rubella; collo antice 



et pectore rejiexu cceruleoj remigibus splendidissime viridibus; 



crisso sanguineo. 

 Parrot olive-green above and beneath ; with the forehead reddish ; 



the neck in front and breast with a blue gloss ; the quills of 



most splendid green ; the vent blood-coloured. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length nine inches : above and 

 beneath of an olive-green : the head hoary green ; the 

 face green ; the forehead reddish or brownish : the 

 beak yellowish, with its base obscure : the neck in 

 front and the breast with a caerulean gloss : the quills 



