ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE XXXIir. 



PSITTACUS MACULATUS 

 SPOTTED BREASTED PARRAKl^ET. 



PiCyE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill falcated ; upper mandible moveable and in general covered 

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

 fleshy, obtuse, entire : feet formed for climbing. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Green: crown, hind, head and nape black : temples cinereous: 

 throat, neck, and breast fuscous with the margins of tlie feather 

 sulphureous: shoulder scarlet: rump and middle of the abdomen 

 sanguineous. 



