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and wings fine green; on the lower part of the neck behind, a 

 crescent of blue; across the wing coverts an oblique narrow bar of 

 Saxon green ; tail long, and cuneiform, most of the feathers deep 

 blue ; legs ash-colour. 



The female generally green on the fore part of the neck and 

 breast, with an olive brown tinge, and here and there a patch of 

 crimson ; belly and vent wholly crimson, but darker than in the male; 

 rump bluish; tail green above, and dusky beneath. 



This species inhabits New-Holland, and called Wellat ; its 

 coincidence in the division of colours, although of different hues, 

 has occasioned it to be thought by some as a variety only of the 

 Tabuan; and we have indeed hesitated in this particular, although at 

 the present moment are inclined to think the two birds distinct. We 

 leave to others the propriety of joining them, or not, as may best 

 suit their ideas. 



A.— Tabuan Parrot, While's Journ. pi. 168. 169? 



In New-Holland is observed a Parrot similar to the last described, 

 which may be ranked as a variety, as all the drawings which I have 

 seen convey the idea of a tail even at the end ; in several the pale 

 vivid green streak on the wing is not conspicuous ; the rump is blue, 

 but the blue at the base of the neck behind is wanting. 



One of these, said to be a female, is green, with a pale blue 

 rump ; beneath, from the breast crimson ; no crescent at the back of 

 the neck ; wings and tail wholly green. The native name, as in the 

 other, Wellat. 



B. — In addition to the above is another of the usual size ; length 

 fifteen inches. Bill dusky ; general colour deep green ; between the 

 bill and eye a clay-colour spot, reaching rather beyond the eye; 



