THE 
BLACK-BACKED PARRAKEET. 
Generic Character. 
Bill hooked: upper mandible moveable, ajjd 
furnished with a cere. 
Nostrils in the base of the bill. 
Tongue fleshy obtuse, generally entire. 
Feet scansorial. 
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Specific Character, &c. 
Long-tailed green PARRAKEET, with black 
back, scarlet wing-coverts, and blue rump. 
The Parrakeet represented on the present plate is 
unquestionably one of the most beautiful that have 
yet been discovered in the regions of Australasia, 
and is a species hitherto undeseribed. Its size is 
somewhat smaller than that of the Pennantian and 
nonpareil parrakeets, and its colours in ,thc highest 
degree vivid and elegant. 
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