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PERROQUET STARIKI. 



pennis. The only species known reside between the 

 continents of Asia and America, consequently their 

 habits are but little ascertained. Temminck differs 

 with Latham respecting the number of species, and 

 asserts that some of those described by the latter are 

 the young of the others ; but as he gives no reasons 

 in support of his assertion, and as the birds appear 

 to be widely different, I have judged it best to keep 

 them distinct, till some more certain information is 

 obtained respecting them. They usually nidificate 

 in holes and fissures of rocks. 



PERROQUET STARIKI. 



(Phaleris Psittacula.) 



Ph. corpore nigricante^ abdomine albo, facie jproducta, ad basim 

 rostri coarctala, rostro rubro. 



Stariki with the body dusky, the abdomen white, the face pro- 

 duced and straightened towards the base of the beak, the beak 

 red. 



Alca Psittacula. PalL Spic 5. IS.;?/. 2. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 



553. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 794. 

 Stariki. Hist. Kamtschatha, 155. 



Perroquet Auk. Pe^in. Arct. Zool. 2. 433. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 

 325. pi. 95./ 2. Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. 345. Lath. Gen. Hist. 

 X. 69. 



About the size of a Blackbird : the beak is deep 

 red, much compressed, and convex both above and 

 beneath : the nostrils are placed in the middle of it, 

 and pervious ; and above these there is a furrow that 



