THE TABUAN PARRAKEET. 



rSJTTACUS TJBUENSJS LATHAM, 



PLATE 22. 



The head, neck, breast, abdomen, crissum, and 

 under tail coverts, are of a bright purplish red ; the 

 feathers on the abdomen and flanks merely tipped 

 with this colour, which produces a banded appear- 

 ance of blackish green ; the whole of the upper parts, 

 with the exception of the quills and outer tail feathers, 

 are bright emerald green, varying in shade and 

 intensity according to the light ; the feathers of the 

 tergum aj c tipped with the same colour as the head 

 and neck; the wings are broad and powerful ; the 

 under sides and under webs of the quills ai'e black ; 

 the outer webs greatly omarginated, and of a high- 

 toned purplish azure blue, changing to pale ultra- 

 marine hUui at the edges ; the spurious wings on the 

 upper side arc of a deep azure blue. The tail is 

 broad and expansive, containing twelve feathers ; 

 the two central ones are of a dull emerald green ; all 

 the others arc of a rich azure blue, tinged at the 



