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^EW EALAND 
iARRAKEET. 
Psittacus Novce Zelandioe, Russ. 
Synonyms: Cyanoramphus Novce Zelandice, Snc.; 
Cyanoramphus Novce Guineas, Bp.; Cyanoramphus audandicus, Bp.; 
Euphema Novae Zeelandice, Mus. B. P.; 
Lathamus Sparrmanni, Lss.; Psittacus pad ficus, Reyneri, Coohi, Ge.; 
Platycercus pacificus, Vgks. German: Per Ziegensittich. 
EW ZEALAND contains a number of ornithological curiosities 
-LM among' its peculiar fauna, and although the subject of the present 
notice can scarcely be classed among them, it is still a sufficiently 
remarkable bird to merit a little attention, which, indeed, it has already 
received at the hand of writers on the subject of Natural History, as 
witness the formidable array of scientific names bestowed upon it, to 
which we might have added several more, but that we considered it 
quite sufficiently burdened as it is. 
As regards plumage, Cyanoramphus presents nothing very striking 
to attract the observer’s notice, while its capacity for acquiring know- 
ledge is not excessive; its disposition, if shy, painfully so in point of 
fact, is decidedly gentle and pleasing, and it has a rather agreeable 
voice, which it can modulate into a passable imitation of articulate 
sounds; its own wild notes, however, are sufficiently agreeable, and it 
can sing a peculiar kind of song, which has been likened by its German 
admirers to the notes of a hurdy-gurdy of superior construction, much 
modified by distance, as well as to the vocalization, under similar con- 
ditions, of our ancient acquaintance Punch of puppet-show notoriety; 
whence the names of Nladdcradats-Sittich bestowed upon it by its 
Teutonic friends, in addition to the appellation of Ziegensittich, by which 
it is more generally known in Germany. 
When first imported these birds are decidedly delicate, and numbers 
