138 PARROT. 



part of the body yellow, crossed with numerous, waved, blackish bands; 

 under wing coverts cinereous grey, with a pale, broad, yellow stripe ; 

 tail cuneiform ; the two middle feathers green, with several oblique 

 bars of black ; the others yellow, barred in the same manner ; all 

 the feathers paler towards the ends, where they are without bars. 



This most elegant and beautiful species inhabits New-Holland ; 

 found about New South Wales ; also at Van-Diemen's Land, and 

 other parts ; known by the name of Goolingnang ; it is sufficiently 

 common, but rarely, if ever, seen, except on the ground, and parti- 

 cularly in moist places; the legs and toes are more slender than usual 

 in the Genus, the claws less curved : is not known to perch in trees 

 like other Parrots, but constantly seen to rise from among the grass, 

 and to alight therein again, almost immediately. 



41.— NONPAREIL PARROT. 



Psittacus eximius, Ind. Oni. Sup. p. xxi. Nat. Misc. pi. 93. N. Holl. Birds, pi. 2. 



Perruche omnicolore, Levail. Perr. i. 59. pi. 28, 29. 



Nonpareil Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 85. Shaw's Zool. viii. 411. pi. 57, 58. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill dusky horn-colour ; head, sides, 

 fore part of the neck and breast, vent, and under tail coverts crimson ; 

 lower part of the breast crimson and yellow mixed ; belly yellow ; 

 towards the vent inclining to green ; chin and feathers surrounding 

 the lower mandible white ; the middle of the nape black and dull 

 green, with a few black spots ; hind parts of the neck and back as far 

 as the middle, green, each feather marked with a large black spot, or 

 rather, the feathers are black, with green margins ; lower part of the 

 back and rump pale green; shoulders black; lesser wing coverts 

 pale blue, beneath deep blue ; great quills dusky, with the outer 

 margins deep blue ; the secondaries edged pale green as the back ; 

 all the greater quills except the outer one, and six or seven of the 



