T H E 
PURPLE-TAILED PARRAKEET. 
Generic Character. 
jB ill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 
Nojirils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 
Legs Ihort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. 
two backward and two forward. 
Linneeus and Pennant. 
Specific Character, &c. 
SHORT-TAILED GREEN PARRAKEET, 
with the rump blue, and the tail (except 
the two middle feathers) purple. 
Obf. The coverts of the tail are very long, and the tail-feathers are 
fquarifli at the tips, and fringed with black. 
PURPLE-TAILED PARRAKEET. 
Latham, vol. l. p. 315. 
The colours of this molt beautiful fpecics, which is 
a native of Cayenne in South America, arc of uncom¬ 
mon brilliancy. It is principally diftinguilhed by the 
purple rcdtrices, or tail-feathers ; except the two mid¬ 
dle ones, which are green. It is one of the rareft 
birds of its genus, and we believe this to be the firft 
figure of it yet publiflied. 
