174 PARROT. 



87— RED-RUMPED PARROT. 



Psittacus Zealandicus, Tnd. Orn. i. 102. Gm. Lin. i. 328. 

 Red -rumped Parrot, Gen. Syn.i. 249. Shaw's Zool. viii. 422: 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill stout, moderately hooked, the 

 upper mandible not angulated ; base of both blue, tip of the upper 

 black ; forehead very dark purple ; crown greenish chestnut ; sides 

 of the head pale green ; from the base of the bill a crimson streak, 

 passing through the eye, and a little beyond ; hind part of the head 

 and neck, upper parts of the body, and wing coverts, dark green ; 

 at the hind part of the neck a few pale yellow feathers, and on the 

 middle of the back a mixture of pale ferruginous brown ; rump 

 crimson, with a chestnut tinge ; under parts of the body cinereous 

 green : greater quills brown, the edges bluish ; secondaries, and 

 bastard wing dusky, edged with green, and pale rusty brown tips ; 

 tail cuneiform, seven inches long, the outer feathers three inches and 

 a quarter, colour bluish, but the two middle ones have green margins; 

 shafts deep chestnut; legs black. 



Inhabits New Zealand. — From a specimen at Sir Jos. Banks's. 



88— CRESTED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus novae Hollandise. Ind. Orn. i. 102. Gm. Lin. i. 323. 

 Crested Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 250. Shaw's Zool. viii. 452. 



THIS is twelve inches long. Bill pale, stout, and much curved; 

 crown, sides, and throat yellow; behind the eye, just within the 

 yellow, a crimson spot, and behind this the yellow is paler ; from 

 the crown of the head spring six slender feathers, forming a crest,* 

 two of them are near three inches long, the four others shorter; 



* In some drawings 10 or more appear, so we may suppose them to differ in this circumstance. 



