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TUI PARRAKEET. 



fsittacus Tui, P. viridis, fronte aurantia, orhitis Jiaiis, rostra 



nigro. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Green Parrot, with orange forehead, yellow orbits, and black bill. 

 Gold-Headed Parrakeet. Lath, syn. 

 La Toui a tete d'or. Buff. ois» 



Petite Perruche de I'isle de St. Thomas. PL Enl 456. f. K 

 La Perruche Tui. Levaill. pL 70. 



Said by Brisson to be of the size of a Starling; 

 but the specimens figured in the Planches Enlu- 

 minees and the work of Levaillant far less, being 

 not larger than the Otaheitan Blue Parrakeet 

 colour entirely green, except the forehead, pretty 

 deep on the crown, which is pale orange: head 

 and neck slightly tinged with a cast of pale blue : 

 bill and legs yellowish-brown. Native of Cayenne, 

 where, according to Levaillant, it is common. 



PURPLE-TAILED PARROT. 



Psittacus porphyrurus. P. viridis, uropitgio cyaneo, rectricibus 

 (exceptis intermediis duahus) purpureis, Vivar. Nat. \.pl. l6. 



Green Parrot, with the rump blue, and the tail (except the two 

 nmiddle feathers), purple. Nat. Misc. vol. I, pi, l6. 



Psittacus purpuratus. Purple- tailed Parrakeet. Lath. 



Size of a Lark: length between seven and eight 

 inches: crown and back dusky green; remainder 

 bright-green: edges of the shoulders and tips of 

 the wings dusky: tail-coverts lengthened and 

 fibrous; bill pale; legs dusky. Native of Cayenne; 

 a rare and highly elegant species. 



