THE 
SCALY-BREASTED PARRAKEET. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill hooked, with the upper mandible move-- 
able, and generally furnished with a cere. 
Nostrils in the base of the bill. 
Tongue^ in most species, fleshy, obtuse, entire. 
Feet scansorial. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ^c. 
Long-tailed green Parrakeet, with scarlet shoul- 
ders, purple-red belly and rump, and 
breast marked by scale-shaped variega- 
tions. 
Wave-Breasted Parrakeet. Far. 
Gen. ZooL 8. p. 405. 
This elegant species is a native of Surinam: the 
specimen figured on the present plate, exhibited a 
greater richness and variety of. plumage than is usually 
seen, and was brought from Surinam by Baron Sack, 
by whom it was politely communicated. 
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