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fail cuneiform, but shorter than in many Parrakeets ; the upper 

 surface green, the under red brown ; legs black. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and according to Fermin, likewise at Surinam, 

 but not common. One in my own collection, came from Cayenne. 

 In the collection of Mr. Woodford was one, seemingly a young bird ; 

 crown blue ; the rest of the head, neck, breast, and under parts 

 brownish ash-colour; fore part of the neck and breast margined with 

 whitish ; back, wing coverts, and thighs green ; rump tawny brown ; 

 tail green, changing to chestnut at the ends ; bill and legs dusky. 



79— WAVE-HEADED PARRAKEET. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill and legs brown ; forehead brown ; 

 the rest of the head, neck, and breast pale brown, waved with buff- 

 colour ; round the eye somewhat bare ; on each jaw a blue green 

 patch, and a trifle of mixture of the same round the neck ; body 

 above and wing coverts green ; quills blue on the outer web ; belly 

 green, with a mixture of blue on the sides and vent ; under wing 

 coverts scarlet ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers four inches 

 and a half long, the exterior two and three quarters, above chestnut 

 red, beneath dusky ; quills dusky, the outer webs fine blue. 



Said to inhabit Africa — in Mr. Bullock's Museum — has somewhat 

 the appearance of the scaly-breasted, but is certainly a distinct species. 



80— SCALY-BREASTED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus squammosus, Ind. Orn. i. 101. 



Scaly-breasted Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 246. Shaw's Zool. viii. 405. Var. Nat. Misc. 

 pi. 1061. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill and legs brown; forehead 

 blue green ; top of the head and nape fine deep purplish brown ; 



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