ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXII. 



PSITTACUS AUREUS. 

 GOLDEN-CROWNED PARRAKEET 



PiCiE. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked, upper mandible moveable and usually covered 

 with a cere ; nostrils : placed in the base of the bill : tongue fleshy, 

 obtuse, entire : feet formed for climbing. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Green : cere and orbits blueish carnation : crown golden: wing 

 coverts with an oblique blue stripe. 



PsiTTAGUS Aureus: viridis, cere orbitisque ex caerulescente incar- 

 natis, vertice aureo, tectricibus alarum fascia, 

 obliqua caerulea. Gmel. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 

 p, 329. 87. 



Psittaca Brasiliensis. Briss* av. 4. p. 337. n, 61. 



