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ing to admit this supposition; conceiving it impro- 

 bable that any bird of the Parrot genm should be 

 found at so great a distance beyond the equator; 

 a fancy now sufficiently exploded by the numerous 

 species of late years discovered in the southern 

 extra-tropical regions. 



TABUAN PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Tabuensis. P. viridis, fascia humerali pallidiore, capiie 



collo corporeque suhtus coccineis. 

 Green Parrakeet, with paler slioulder-stripe, and scarlet head^ 



neck, and under-parts. 

 Psittacus Tabuensis /3. P. macr. viridis, capite collo corporeque 



suhtus coccineis, SfC. Lath, ind, orn. 

 La Grande Perruche a collier et croupion bleu. LevailLpL 55. 

 Psittacus Tabuensis. Museum Leverianum. No» 6. p. 2g. 

 Tabuan Parrot. White's Bot. Bat/, pi, p. 108. 



VAR.? 



Psittacus Amboinensis. P. macrourus coccineus, dorso cceruleo, 



alis macula viridi, Lin. Si/st. Nat, 

 Psittacus Amboinensis. Lath, ind. orn. 

 Le Lori Perruche tricolor. Buff. ois. 

 Perruche rouge d'Auaboine. PL Enl. 240. 

 Amboina Red Parrot. Lath, syn. 



Length about sixteen, or even eighteen inches : 

 head, neck, and whole under parts bright scarlet": 

 back, vikings, and tail deep grass-green, with an 

 oblique bar of much brighter and paler green across 

 the smaller wing-coverts, passing from the shoul- 



V. viTi. p. n. !27 



