RED-BREASTED PARRAKEET. 



415 



delivered it to her young in succession. The 

 young, though of different sexes, were perfectly 

 alike till the first moulting, at which time red fea- 

 thers, bordered with green, began to appear on the 

 breast, and the male became distinguished by the 

 blue patch on the abdomen. This species is most 

 elegantly figured, in its several states, in the 

 splendid work of Monsr. Levaillant, who has also 

 given a plate of a remarkable variety, in which the 

 back and coverts are yellow, and the sides both of 

 the neck and lower part of the abdomen richly 

 scalloped with the same colour. 



VAR.? 



RED-BREASTED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus haematodes. P. macr, viridisy pecfore rubra j facie ccsrulea, 

 lunula cervicis Jiava, Lin, Sj^st, Nat, Mantiss, 1771. p. 524, 

 Red-Breasted Parrakeet. Edw,pl. 232, 

 La Perruche a face bleue. Buff, ois, 

 Perruche d'Amboine. PI, Enl. 61. 

 La Perruche a face bleue. Levaill, pL 47. 



MoNSR. Levaillant considers this, which was first 

 described by Edwards, under the name of the Red- 

 Breasted Parrakeet, as a distinct species, having 

 bad an opportunity of viewing three specimens in 

 different collections, all which exactly coincided in 

 colours with Edwards's figure and description, and 

 were all said to be natives of some part of the East 

 Indies, though their precise native region seemed 



