PLATE XXXIII. 



PsiTTACUS Maculatus : viridis : vertice, occipite, nuchaque 



nigris: temporibus cinereis: gula, coUo, pecto- 

 reque fiiscis marginibus pennarum sulphureis : 

 humeris coccineis : uropygio abdomineque medio 

 sanguineis. 



A very rare species of the Parrakeet tribe, and which is presumed 

 to be a native of South America. 



The length of this bird is nine inches and a half ; the bill and 

 legs blackish. The prevailing colour of the plumage green, front and 

 crown of the head blueish green, the rest of the head and neck black: 

 the feathers upon the face glossed Avith blue : a large ovate cinereous 

 spot on the cheeks: throat and breast black varied with pale yellowish 

 scollops, the margin of the feathers being a pale sulphureous yellow, 

 the disk black : the black disk usually forming a kind of triangular 

 spot with the point tending downwards. The wings are green, except 

 the quill feathers, which are blue, and the butt of the wing or 

 shoulder the colour of which is scarlet. The body beneath green 

 with a large spot of sanguineous-purple on the abdomen. The lower 

 part of the back and rump the same sanguineous purple colour as 

 the abdominal spot : tail above green, the feathers purplish towards 

 the end; beneath rufous brown. 



This curious bird is nearly allied to Psittacus Squammosus, the 

 Scal^^ Breasted Parrakeet^ and in no very remote degree with another 

 kind of Parrakeet, the Wavy Breasted Parrot, Psittacus Lineatus, 

 Tlie first of these our bird exceeds by at least an inch in length, the 



