PLATE XCII. 



PsiTTACUS Pennantii : coccineus, dorso antico nigro coccineo 

 undulato, lateribus corporis gulaque caeruleis, 

 remigibus intus macula alba. Lath> Ind, Orn, 

 T.\. p. 90. n, 26. 



Pennantian Parrot, Latli, Syn. Sup, p. 61. 



This is assuredly one of the most elegant species of the Parrot 

 tribe that has hitherto been discovered. It is a native of New South 

 Wales, where it was discovered by our first circumnavigators who 

 accompanied Capt. Cook in his memorable voyage round the world, 

 and was, shortly after the return of the expedition, made known to 

 the public as one among the number of the more choice and interest- 

 ing acquisitions with which the researches of our naturalists had 

 been rewarded. A specimen of this elegant bird was placed also in 

 the museum of Sir Ashton Lever, where from the singular richness 

 and beauty of its colours it could not fail to attract very general 

 admiration. Subsequently the species was described by Dr. Latham 

 in the supplement to his Synopsis of Ornithology, and after that time 

 in Dr. Shaw's Museum Leverianum, and in White's Journal of a 

 Voyage to New Holland. For the space of many years the bird, 

 remained however, a species of more than usual rarity in our collec- 

 tions, and it is still considered far from common, notwithstanding our 

 uninterrupted possession from that period to the present of that por- 

 tion of New South Wales which it is known to inhabit. The feathers 

 of this elegant bird, in common with those of some others of the more 

 gay and splendid kinds, are employed in the manufacture of the war 



