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NESTOR NORFOLCENSIS PELZELN. 



(Plate 6, full figure.) 



Long-billed Parrakeet Latham, Gen. Hist. II, p. 171 (1822). 



Nestor norfolcensis Pelzeln, Sitzb. k. Akad. Wiss. XLI, pp. 322-325, pi. — (i860 — detailed 

 description from the manuscript of the late botanist, Ferdinand Lucas Bauer, and 

 figure of head with an evidently abnormally developed bill. The specimen was from 

 Norfolk Island ; it had disappeared before Pelzeln's time). 



ATHAM'S original description is as follows : " Length above 12 inches. 



■ > Bill very long and curved, thick halfway from the base, but tapering 

 quite to a point at the tip, and under mandible truncated at the end, 

 colour of both, dusky; head and neck dull green; sides under the eyes, chin 

 and throat pale crimson; upper parts of the body, wings and tail dusky; 

 breast yellowish; belly, thighs and vent more or less crimson; tail cuneiform; 

 legs brown." 



"One of these was in possession of Governor Hunter, who brought it 

 from Norfolk Island; from the bill it seems related to the other, but 

 the tail is cuneiform in a much greater degree, without any bars across it." 



The only bird of this species extant is the one in Liverpool, from 

 the Tristram collection. 



Governor Hunter's specimen and Bauer's bird were both brought from 

 Norfolk Island, but as they were cage-birds, and differed so markedly from 

 N. productus, I, for reasons given under N. productus, believe this bird came 

 from Lord Howe's Island. 



Habitat : Lord Howe's Island (?). 



