THE 
PURPLE - HEADED PARRAKEET. 
Generic Character. 
Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 
Nojlrils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 
Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two 
backward and two forward. 
Linnceus and Tennant. 
Specific Character. 
GREEN PARRAKEET, with the tail rather 
elongated; crown (lightly crefted, and of a 
purplifh blue; throat red. 
BLUE-CRESTED PARRAKEET. 
Latham s Synopfis of Birds, vol. I. p. 254. 
Of the extenfive genus to which this bird belongs, 
there hardly exifts a more beautiful fpecies, either in 
point of fhape or colour. It is a native of the newly- 
difcovered Iflands in the South-Sea, and is one of the 
numerous acquifitions with which Natural Hiftory has 
been enriched by the late Voyages to the Southern 
Hemifphere. It is fubjeft to fome variety as to co¬ 
lour, the thighs in fome being green, and in others 
purple : the bread alfo is fometimes of a dufky tinge. 
Thefe are probably either fexual differences, or elfe 
may be owing to a more or lefs advanced (late of age. 
