dufky. The bill and legs arc reddidit and the feathers 

 on the head are elongated, fo as to form a (light creft, 

 in the fame manner as in the Pfittacus Porphyrocepha- 

 lus, defcribed in the Firft Number of this work, 



A very curious circumftance relative to this little 

 bird, has been obferved by Mr. Latham in his Synop- 

 fis of Birds ; viz. that the tongue, which in the reft of 

 the genus is blunt and fhort, is in this fpecies long, and 

 terminated by a fort of pencil of fhort white briftles. 



It is a native of the Ifland of Otaheitee in the South- 

 ern Hemifphere. 



