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SMALL PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus pusillus. P. viridis, capistro rectricumque bast rubris. 



Green Parrakeet, with the frontlet and base of the tail-feathers 

 red. 



Small Parrakeet. White's Jmrn, p, 262, 



Length between six and seven inches: tail 

 strongly cuneated, with the side-feathers red on 

 their inner webs towards the base: bill brownish; 

 legs dusky: tongue furnished at the tip with a 

 kind of brush of lengthened papillae, as in several 

 of the smallish New Holland Parrakeets. 



PALE PARRAKEET, 



Psitlacus pallidus. P,Jlavus, alis albidis rosacea leviter tincHs, 

 rescenteque, pro luce, variatis, Nat. Misc. pi, 2^%. 



Yellow Parrakeet, with whitish wings slightly tinctured with rose- 

 colour, and with a cast of greenish according to the direction 

 of the light. 



A SMALL species, measuring about six inches in 

 length: tail slightly cuneated, but rather short: 

 bill and legs whitish: supposed to be a native of 

 New Holland. 



V, VIII. p. II. 



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