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spring two slender dusky feathers, one inch and a half long, and 

 tipped with crimson ; hind part of the neck, and rump yellowish ; 

 the rest of the body green ; wing coverts green outwardly, but the 

 seven inner webs and tips are dusky ; quills black, margined with 

 blue; tail cuneiform, six inches long, of the same blue colour as the 

 quills, but green without next the base ; near the ends and tips of 

 the feathers almost white ; the under part of the quills and tail sooty 

 black ; legs dusky black. 



Inhabits New Caledonia, and called there Kere or Keg-he. It 

 is probably a very scarce species, as we have only known two to have 

 reached England, — one brought home by Sir Jos. Banks, the other 

 drawn from a second specimen by General Davies ; in the latter the 

 yellow passed quite round the nape. 



86. NEW-CALEDONIAN PARROT. 



Psittacus Caledonicus, Ind. Orn. i. 102. Gm. Lin. i. 328. 

 Caledonian Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 248. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill bluish, tip pale ; feathers round the 

 upper mandible crimson, round the lower and chin blue ; crown 

 greenish yellow ; upper parts of the body olive green, beneath olive 

 yellow ; quills outwardly pale blue ; tail cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers six inches long, the outer only three, colour olive green ; the 

 outer edges of the four exterior ones pale blue, ends of all whitish ; 

 legs dusky blue. 



Inhabits New Caledonia ; thought to differ from the former in 

 sex, and, if so, it is probably the female. 



