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of tlie rest of the plumage ochre, fore-part of the 

 breast, and the two middle tail-feathers green ; deepest 

 on the breast : from the last to the thighs yellow : 

 thighs and vent pale green : the second quills ultra- 

 marine-blue : primaries black, edged with grey: 

 under wing-coverts verditer-blue : the tail cuneiform, 

 eight inches long ; the two middle-feathers green, 

 with blue ends, the others verditer or pale-blue : legs 

 dusky. 



Sp. C. PI. Tabuensis. Vigors. 



Psittacus atropurpureus. Shaw, u.'viii. p. 409.— Tabuan Par- 

 rot. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. ii. p. l\5. pi. xxii. — Tongataboo. 



Sp. 7. PI. scapulatus. 



Psittacus scapulatus. Becks. Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. {Kiihl.) 



V. X. p. 56.~Psittacus Tabuensis. Shaw, v. viii. p. 407. pi- 55. 



— Society Islands. 



Sp. 8. PI. pacificus, Zool. Journ. (Vigors.) v. i. p. 531. 



Psittacus pacificus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 419. — The Islands of the 



Pacific Ocean. 



Sp. 9. PI .'' erythrouotus. 



PL-f" uropygio ex sangineo purpureo ; Jronte hrunnescente ; rostra 

 corneo, basi plumheo. 



Plactycercus .-* with the rump of a sanguineous purple ; the fore- 

 head brownish ; the beak horn-coloured, with its base leaden. 



Psittacus erythrouotus. Nova Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. {Kuhl.) 

 V. X. p. 45. 



Allied to the immediately preceding species : the 

 back, wing-coverts and under side olive : the rump 

 of a sanguineous-purple : the forehead brownish : the 

 head green : the face deep green : the beak horn- 

 colour, with its base plumbeous, and rather stout : 

 the tail above bluish, greenish in the middle : the 

 quills bay brown, the stouter webs blue : the tarsi 

 elevated. 



