408 TABUAN PARRAKEET. 



ders towards the back : larger quill-feathers tip- 

 ped with dusky blackish-blue : tail dusky, with a 

 varying cast of green : upper mandible orange- 

 red with dusky tip; lower mandible blackish: 

 legs of the same colour. Native of New Hol- 

 land, and, in all probability, of some of the East- 

 Indian islands, since there can be little doubt that 

 the Psittacus Amboinensis of Linnasus is in reality 

 the same species. 



The Tabuan Parrakeet is a bird of great beauty, 

 and has often been brought from New Holland to 

 this country in a living state. It appears to be of 

 a gentle, but not remarkably lively disposition. 



The figure of this species in Mr. White's Journal 

 of a Voyage to New South- Wales seems to repre- 

 sent the tail as nearly even at the end ; a circum- 

 stance which must have arisen either from some 

 slight accidental mutilation of the specimen, or in- 

 attention on the part of the artist ; the tail, in all 

 the specimens brought over in a perfect state, 

 being long, and moderately cuneiform, as in the 

 immediately preceding species. 



