422 RED-RUMPED PARRAKEET. 



up his description from the figure in that pub- 

 lication. 



Levaillant also adds, that the name of Perroquet 

 de Lugon, by which it is called in the work just 

 mentioned, is highly exceptionable, since it is found 

 not only through a great extent of the East Indies, 

 but in all the Molucca islands. 



RED-RUMPED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Zaelandiciis. P. macr. fusco-viridisy capistro purpurea^ 

 nigra, vertice viridi^castaneoj striga per oculos uropygioque coc- 

 cineis. Lath, ind, orn. 



Dusky-green Parrakeet, with blackish-purple frontlet, greenish- 

 chesnut crown, red eye- stripe and rump. 



Ked-rumped Parrot. Lath, syn. 



First described by Dr. Latham, from a specimen 

 then in the possession of Sir Joseph Banks. Length 

 fifteen inches : colour above dusky green, beneath 

 cinereous green: quill-feathers with blueish edges: 

 forehead dark purple : crown greenish chesnut : 

 from the base of the bill, through the eyes, a 

 crimson streak : rump crimson with a tinge of 

 chesnut; tail blueish, the two middle-feathers edged 

 with green, and the shafts of all the feathers deep 

 chesnut : bill stout, and dusky-blue at the base 

 legs black. Native of New Zealand. 



