SAPPHIRE-CROWNED PSITTACULE. 
Psittaculus galgulus. — Wagler. 
PLATE XXIV. 
Psittaculus vernalis, Swains. 2 d Series Illust. (young male). 
— Psittacus galgulus, Lath. Ind. Orn. y. L p. 130, sp. 148. 
(exclu. var. B. )— Psitt. vernalis, Id. i. 130, sp. 147. — 
Petite Perruche de Psiron, PI. Enl. 190. f. 2 Sapphire- 
crowned Paraket, Edwards, pi. 293. f. 2 Lath. Syn. 
i. 312, sp, 117 Vernal Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. — Swains. 
2 d Series Illust. 
Mr Swainson, in the Second Series of liis beau- 
tiful Illustrations, has figured and described this 
bird nearly in the same state it is represented upon 
our plate, under the title of Psittaculus vernalis, 
supposing it a distinct species, or at least not aware 
that it was the young or immature male of the 
Psittacus galgulus of authors. This, at least, is 
the opinion of Wagler, who, in his “ Monographia 
Psittacorum," has described it as such, and brought 
the synonymes of these two supposed species toge- 
ther. As to the correctness of his views in so doing, 
we are bound, in the first instance, to consider them 
as being so, presuming that the evidence upon which 
he established their identity was satisfactory and con- 
