NEW SOUTH WALES, 
Order II. Pies. 
Genus V. 
R E D - S H O U L D E R E D P A R R A K E E T. 
This bird is about the lize of the Guinea Parrakeet. 
Total length ten inches and a half : the general colour of 
the plumage is green, inclining to yellow on the under 
parts : the top of the head, the outer edge of the wing, 
and fome parts of the middle of the fame are deep blue : 
all round the bafe of the bill crimfon, with a mixture of 
the fame on the fore part of the neck, but between the 
bill and eye is a mixture of yellow : the flioulders, and 
under parts of the wings are blood red : two or three of 
the inner quills, and the vent pale red : the greater quills 
dufky, fringed outwardly with yellow : the tail is greatly 
wedged in lliape, the feathers at the bafe chefnut, to- 
wards the end dull blue : the bill and leo^s are brown, 
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This fpecies inhabits New South JVaks ; and we be^ - 
lieve it to be hitherto non-defcript. 
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CHAP. 
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