THE 



PURPLE - HEADED PARRAKEET. 



Generic Character. 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Noftrils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 

 Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two 

 backward and two forward. 



Linnceus and Pennant. 



Specific Character. 



GREEN PARRAKEET, with the tail rather 

 elongated ; crown (lightly crefted, and of a 

 purplifh blue ; throat red. 



BLUE-CRESTED PARRAKEET. 



Lathams Synopjis of Birds, vol. I. p. 254. 



Of the extenfive genus to which this bird belongs, 

 there hardly exifts a more beautiful fpecies, either in 

 point of fhape or colour. It is a native of the newly- 

 difcovered Iflands in the South-Sea, and is one of the 

 numerous acquifitions with which Natural Hiftory has 

 been enriched by the late Voyages to the Southern 

 Hemifphere. It is fubjedl to fome variety as to co- 

 lour, the thighs in fome being green, and in others 

 purple : the breaft alfo is fometimes of a dulky tinge. 

 Thefe are probably either fexual differences, or elfe 

 may be owing to a more or lefs advanced ftate of age* 



