THE BATTLEDORE-TAILED PARROT. 



PSITTACUS DISCURUS^ — VIEILLOT. 



PLATE 7. 



The crown of the head and nape of the neck of 

 a vivid light blue ; the back, green ; the cheeks, 

 throat, and whole neck, and under parts of 

 the body, of a yellowish green ; the back, rump, 

 the upper wing coverts, of a beautiful green ; 

 the remiges the same colour on the outside, and 

 blackish on the under side ; the lower part of a 

 black and bluish white ; the intermediate rectrices 

 green ; the lateral tail feathers blue externally, 

 blackish internally, and all of a clear blue above ; 

 the two intermediate feathers terminated by a* 

 long shaft of two inches, whose end presents a 

 battledore-shaped discus, composed of blue feathers ; 

 the bill is of a cream white in the dead bird, and 

 the feet are brown. The total length of the bird is 

 nine inches and a half to the extremity of the shaft, 

 and eight to the end of the lateral fiathers, which 

 are of equal length. 



It Inhabits New Holland, but nothing is known 

 of its habits. 



