1 -24r PSITTACID^. 



under side are scarlet varied with yellowish-green, 

 which colour disappears in the adult : the upper side 

 is greenish, with the base of all the feathers dusky : 

 the margin of the wings, and base of the external 

 greater quills, and lateral tail-feathers are blue ; the 

 intermediate feathers are olive-green : the beak is 

 small : the tail broad, longer than the body. 



Sp. 15. PI? multicolor. 



Pl? Jronte fiavcscente ; regione interoculari media rubra; hu~ 



meris aurantiis. 

 Platycercus ? vrith the forehead yellowish ; the region between the 



eyes red in the middle ; the shoulders orange. 

 Psittacus multicolor. Linn. Trans. {Temm.) v.-s.\i\.p. 119. Xova 



Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. [Kuhl.) x\ x. p. 55. 



Inhabits New Holland. The size and form of 

 the last mentioned species : of a splendid green : 

 the back of an olive-green ; the forehead yellowish : 

 the region between the eyes with the middle red : 

 the lower part of the abdomen yellow-reddish : the 

 shoulders orange : the edge of the wing, lower coverts 

 and external web of the quills blue, the inner web 

 black : the tail much gradated, blue, mixed with 

 black and green : the beak horn-coloured : the tarsi 

 elongated. 



Sp. 1 6. PI : setarius. 



Pl. sincipite circumscripte cinerascenti OBrvleo ; inter ociilos mn- 

 cuid rubra; inter collum et dorsum Jascia ochraceo-Guraniid ; 

 rectricibus duabus intermediis longhribus et harum parti pro - 

 ducto scapis nudis. 



Platycercus with the sinciput surrounded by greyish-blue; be- 

 tween the beak and eyes a red spot ; between the neck and 

 back an ochraceous-orauge band ; the two middle tail-feathers 

 elongated, with part of the shrifts naked. 



