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PURPLE-TAILED 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, &c. 



SHORT-TAILED GREEN PARRAKEET, 

 with the rump blue, and the tail (except 

 the two middle feathers) purple. 



Obf. The coverts of the tail are very long, and the tail-feathers are 

 fquarifh at the tips, and fringed with black. 



PURPLE-TAILED PARRAKEET. 



Latham, vol. l. p. 315. 



The colours of this moft beautiful fpecics, which is 

 a native of Cayenne in South America, are of uncom- 

 mon brilliancy. It is principally diftinguiftied by the 

 purple redlrices, or tail-feathers ; except the two mid- 

 dle ones, which are green. It is one of the rareft 

 birds of its genus, and we believe this to be the firft 

 figure of it yet publifhcd. 



