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the genus, elongated at the point, but very little bent, the under 

 reaching to about half the length ; plumage in general fine light 

 grass green, inclining to brown on the wing coverts ; rump dusky 

 crimson ; tail scarcely half an inch long ; from the base to the midd^ 

 blue, the rest white ; legs pale brown. 



We found the above among the drawings of Mr. Woodford, but 

 without any history annexed ; it becomes, therefore, an uncertainty, 

 whether the tail is only of this length, or the rudiment of a new one, 

 the former having been lost by accident. 



232— YELLOW-THROATED PARRAKEET. 



Psitt; Toui, Ind. Orn. i. 134. Gin. Lin. i. 351. 

 — —- gutture luteo, Bris. iv. 396. t. 30. f. 3. Id. 8vo. ii. 151. 

 Petite Perr. a Gorge jaune, Toui, Buf. vi. 280. PI. enl. 190. 1. 

 Yellow-throated Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 319. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill light grey ; general colour of the 

 plumage green, paler beneath ; hind part of the neck inclining to 

 yellow ; under the throat a small, round, pale orange spot ; on the 

 middle of the wing coverts one of chestnut, glossed with gold 

 and green, making a broad band on the wing ; greater coverts and 

 quills grass-green ; lesser coverts and secondaries yellow-green ; 

 shafts of all the quills black ; inner edges of the tail feathers yellow 

 green ; legs grey. 



Native place uncertain. One, similar to the above, was bare, and 

 pale round the eye ; at the base of the mandible a few orange feathers ; 

 wing coverts mostly brown, forming a large patch on the wing ; most 

 x>f the back feathers fringed with brown ; the lower order of wing 

 coverts black at the ends ; the outer webs of the greater quills 



bluish. 



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