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BLUE-BELLIED PARllAKEET. 



Psittaciis cyanogaster. P. 'viridis capite cceruleo, suhtus luieo rubro 



aeru/eoque varius, remigibus intus macula lulea. 

 Green Parrakeet, with blue head, beneath varied with yellow, 



red, and bluej the quill-feathers marked within by a yellow 



spot. 



Psittacus heematodus var. 12. y. J. Lath, in J, orn. 

 Red-Breasted Parrot var. A. B. Lath, syn, 

 Perruche des Moluques. Buff. ois. PL Enl. 743. 

 Pel ruche d'Amhoine. Buff', ois, PLEnLGl, 

 Blue-Bellied Parrot. White's Journ. pi. p. 140. 

 Perruche a tete bleue. Lexaill, 24. 25. 26. 27. 



This is a very beautiful and richly variegated 

 species, and appears to occur, with some variations, 

 through a large extent of space ; being found in 

 several of the Molucca islands, as well as in New 

 Holland, where it occurs in the highest state of 

 perfection, generally measuring about fourteen or 

 fifteen inches in length : the bill is pale orange- 

 red : the head and throat fine violet-blue, the fea- 

 thers on those parts being somewhat lanceolate: 

 the neck, back, and wings deep grass-green, but 

 the larger quill-feathers dusky, and crossed on the 

 inner webs by a deep-yellow bar : the breast deep 

 red, waved or mottled transversly with bright yel- 

 low : the under coverts of the wings, beneath the 

 shoulders, are red: the belly fine blue, and the 

 thighs varied with green and yellow; the legs dusky. 

 The tongue in this, as well as in some other New 

 Holland Parrakeets, is finely ciliated, as it were. 



