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VARIED-WINGED PARRAEEET. 



pointed : bill blueish ; legs dusky. In some spe- 

 cimens a red spot appears on each side the vent, 

 and in some the crown of the head is green like 

 the rest of the plumage ; in others yellowish, and 

 the rump red. Native of New Holland and several 

 of the southern isles. 



VARIED-WINGED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus marginatus. P. mridis, vertice cceruleo ^ tectricibus da- 



rum nigro cceruleo Jiavoque variis. 

 Green Parrakeet^ with blue crown, and wing-coverts varied with 



black, blue, and yellow. 

 La Perruche de Tisle de Lugon, Sonner, voy, p. 80. 44. 

 Varied-Winged Parrot. Lath, si/n, 

 Psittacus marginatus. Lath. ind. orn. 



Described by Sonnerat, who says it is con- 

 siderably larger than the common Parrakeet, but 

 does not mention its length : bill large and flesh- 

 coloured : eyes small : irides white : crown of the 

 head blue : upper parts of the bird grass-green ; 

 under parts yellowish- green : smaller wing-coverts 

 black, edged with yellow-brown ^ greater coverts 

 black, edged with blue, and again with yellow- 

 brown, so as to form a richly variegated patch on 

 the wings : legs blackish. Native of Luzonia, 



