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SCALY-BREASTED PARRAKEET. 
RHEE MER ERR RRR RE z 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill hooked, with the upper ‘mandible move- 
able, and generally furnished with a cere. 
Nostrils in the base of the bill. 
‘Tongue, in most species, fleshy, obtuse, entire. 
_ Reet scansorial. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &e. 
Long-tailed green Parrakeet, with scarlet shoul- 
ders, purple-red belly and rump, and 
breast marked by scale- “shaped: variega- 
tions. ; 
Wave- ‘Breasted Parrakeet. Pars 
Gen. Zool. 8. p. 405. 

This elegant species is a native of Surinam: the 
specimen figured on the present plate, exhibited a 
greater richness and variety of plumage than is usually 
seen, and was brought from Surinam by Baron Sack, 
by whom it was politely communicated. 
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