ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXX. 



PSITTACUS TABUENSIS 

 TABUAN PARROT 



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. 



* Tail long, and cuneated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Green : head, neck, breast and belly purplish : neck terminated 

 by a lunar blue mark ; wings green ; rump blue ; tail deep brownish 

 blue. 



PsiTTACUS Tabuensis : viridis, capite collo corporeque subtus 

 coccineis, lunula cervicis uropygioque caeruleis, 

 alis viridibus, cauda fusca. Lath, Ind, Orn, 

 1. S. 8. 19, GmeL Syst. 1. p, 317. 



