BLACK-WINGED PARRAKEET. 



Generic Character. 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Nqftrils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 

 Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two 

 forward and two backward. 



Specific Character, &c* 



PALE-GREEN PARRAKEET, with black back 

 and wings; the fecondary wing-feathers yel- 

 low tipped with blue ; the tail lilac- coloured 

 and eroded by a black bar. 



PERRUCHE k ailes variees. 



Buff. 6. p. 172. 



PETITE PERRUCHE de Batavia. 



PL enl. 791. f. 1. 



The Pfittacus melanopterus, fo remarkable for the 

 elegance of its colours, is a native of the ifland of Java, 

 and is found at Batavia. The plate reprefents it nearly 

 of its natural fize. It is a fpecies very rarely feen in 

 collections. The beautiful fpecimen from which this 

 figure was executed is in the Britilh Mufeum. 



