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YELLOW-COLLARED PARRAKEET. 



Fsittacus flavitorquis, P. viridis, suhtus subjlavescens, capife viom 

 laceo, coUarifldDo, rectricibus mediis ccerukis apice albidis. 



Green Parrakeet, yellowish-green beneath, with violet head, yel- 

 low collar, and blue middle tail-feathers with whitish tips. 



Perruche a collier jaune. LevailL pi. 7.5. yd. 



An elegant species ; general shape or habit 

 similar to that of P. rodocephalus, but a size 

 smaller : head violet-blue, but tinged in front with 

 brown: neck surrounded by a jonquil-yellow col- 

 lar; remainder of the plumage green, but some- 

 what paler or yellower beneath : largest or lowest 

 wing-coverts tinged with blue, and the edges of 

 the larger quill-feathers with pale yellow : tail as 

 in the rodocephalus, viz. green, with the two mid- 

 dle feathers sky-blue, pretty deeply tipped with 

 yellowish-white ; bill yellowish : legs dusky. Fe- 

 male like the male, but with pale-violet head, with- 

 any appearance of brown in front, and the yellow 

 collar less conspicuous. Native of India, and con* 

 sidered by Levaillant as a species before unde- 

 scribed. 



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