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GROUND -PARROT. 
brown. The wings are rather short and rounded, 
the first and fourth quills being equal, the second and 
third the longest and equal. The inner webs of the 
quills are blackish-brown, and hare each a mesial 
angular spot of yellow, forming an oblique fascia or 
bar on the under side of the wings ; the exterior webs 
are green, with an angular spot of yellow towards the 
middle, upon all the quills, with the exception of the 
two first. At the base of the upper mandible is a nar- 
row band of reddish-orange. The bill is grey, the to- 
mia of the upper mandible paler, and without emargi- 
nation. The feet are yellowish-white, the tarsi nearly 
an inch long, covered in front with hexagonal scales. 
The toes slender and long, the claws nearly straight, 
with pale tips. 
The Ground Parrot is a native of Holland and 
Van Diemen’s Land, where it inhabits the scrubs or 
ground partially covered with low underwood. It 
is very rarely seen perched, and when flushed, Mr 
Caley observes, takes a short flight, and then alights 
among the bushes, but never upon them. Of its 
mode of nidifieation, and other matters connected 
with its history, we are unable to give any further 
account. 
The last group our limits permit us to mention, 
from its characters, which in many respects approach 
near to those of Pezoporus, seems naturally to be in- 
cluded in this division. Its members are distinguished 
by a crest, in one species consisting of two slender 
