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plumage on the upper parts of the body olive brown, beneath paler; 

 on the wing a large square patch of white, placed obliquely ; tail 

 cuneiform, plain dusky buff, the two middle feathers seven inches 

 long, the next four, the outer three and a quarter ; legs dusky. 



The female, in size, is the same. Head and body as in the 

 former, but inclined to chestnut; a trifle paler on the sides, and 

 crested in the same manner; on the rump some slender transverse 

 grey lines ; tail crossed with numerous bars of the same, in some as 

 tar as 20 or 30, the outer feather white the whole length on the 

 exterior web ; on the wing the same oblique bar of white as in the 

 male. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; first seen at Sir Jos. Banks's. We 

 have heard of others, but it appears to be a scarce species. 



89— SOCIETY PARROT. 



Psittacus Ulietanus, Ind.Orn.i. 103, Gm. Lin.\. 328. 

 Society Parrot, Gen. Syn.x. 250. Shaw's Zool. viii. 457. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill deep blue, end black ; 

 head black brown, taking in the eye, and the nape, and bending 

 forwards over the base of the under mandible ; upper parts of the 

 body deep olive brown, the feathers margined with dusky, producing 

 a waved appearance; rump deep, dull crimson, margined with dusky; 

 upper tail coverts as the back ; chin dusky ; the rest of the under 

 parts olive yellow, the feathers margined with dusky, as in the upper, 

 but paler ; quills and tail dusky, the latter cuneiform in shape, 

 inclining to cinereous brown, the two middle feathers seven inches 

 long, the outer three and a half; legs black. 



Inhabits Ulietea, one of the Society Isles, in the South Seas. 



