NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Tabuan Parrot. 
Order and Genus the fame. 
Species XVI. 
A Variety. 
The bird here reprefented has been feen by Mi\ 
Latham, and was by him referred to this fpecies ; of 
which however it feems a very remarkable variety : The 
prevalent colour of the head, neck and bread, being, in- 
ftead of a deep crimfon or purpliOi red, as in his de- 
fcription and plate, as well as in a fine fpecimen now in 
his own colledlion, a very bright fcarlet : the blue mark 
acrofs the lov/er part of the neck appears the fame; but 
the blue feathers in the wings are entirely vf anting ; 
and the bill is not black. 
See Latham's SynopHs, vol. i, p. 214. 
The fpecimen here delineated may be thus defcribed. 
Length twenty-four inches : bill brown, the upper 
mandible tinged with red : the head, neck, and all the 
under parts of the body a bright fcarlet : the back and 
wings a fine green. On the lower part of the neck, be- 
tween that and the back, a crefcent of blue : the tail 
long and cuneiform, mofl of its feathers deep blue : the 
legs alli coloured : on the upper part of the wings a 
narrow line of lighter green. 
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