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parts of the body are of an oil-green, with darker 
undulations, the lower parts are plain yellowish-green. 
The two intermediate tail feathers are green at the 
base, passing towards the tips into azure-blue, the 
lateral feathers are green, with a broad yellow fascia 
in the middle. The bill and legs are grey. 
In near connection with the birds we have just 
been describing, stands the genus Pezoporus, Illiger, 
represented by the Pezoporus formosus, Illiger, the 
Ground Parrot of Latham’s General History. The 
characters of distinction are drawn from the still 
greater elongation of the tarsi and toes, and the 
usually straight claws, indicating habits strictly terres- 
trial, with trifling or greatly diminished powers of 
prehension. The tail also is less depressed, and the 
feathers are narrower and more pointed than in Na- 
nodes venuslus and pulchellus, with those slight 
modifications of character it might perhaps with 
equal propriety be considered a constituent or aber- 
rant member of the genus to which they belong, pro- 
bably its rasorial type. We retain it, however, in its 
present station, until a stricter analysis of the family 
has been instituted. It is represented by the next 
figure under the title of the 
