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BARRABAND RING-PARR AKEET. 
Palteornis Barrabandi. — Vigors. 
PLATE I. 
Palieornis Barrabandi, Vigors, in Zool. Journ. vol. ii. p. 56, 
Sp. 10 Psittacus Barrabandi, Swains. Zool. Illust. vol. i. 
p. 59. — Polytelis Barrabandi, Wagler, in Abhand. See., 
p. 519 — Scarlet-breasted Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn. vol. ii. 
p. 121, P. 24, Ed. 2. 
In this handsome bird, we have one of those in- 
teresting forms which so beautifully connect groups, 
otherwise distant and far removed ; for though the 
character and shape of the tail, the well-defined ring 
or neck-collar, the proportions of the wings, kc., evi- 
dently place it in this genus, its elevated tarsi and 
feet shew an approach to the Broad-tailed Divi- 
sion (Platytercin®), which stands at the further ex- 
tremity of the Psittaeean Family. It is also a native 
of New Holland, in which interesting country so 
many species of Platycercus have been discovered, 
the rest of the ring-parrakeets, being the greater part 
of them natives of Continental India, and its neigh- 
bouring islands, and one or two are also met with 
