ORNITHOLOGY
PLATE XVII.
PSITTACUS GALGULUS
SAPPHIRE CROWNED PARRAKEET.
Picæ.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Bill falcated; upper mandible moveable, and in general covered with a cere: nostrils rounded, placed in the base of the bill: tongue fleshy, obtuse, entire: feet formed for climbing.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Green: rump and breast scarlet: crown of the male blue.
Psittacus Galgulus: viridis, uropygio pectoreque coccineis, vertice (maris) cæruleo.—Linn. Amoen. ac. 4. p. 286.—Mus. Ad. Fr. ii. p. 16.—Osbeck. it. 101.
Psittacus Galgulus: viridis, uropygio pectoreque coccineis, vertice cæruleo, lunula cervicis lutea, tectricibus caudæ rubris.—Lath. Ind. Orn. T. 1. 148. p. 131.
Perruche à tête bleue. Buff. hist. nat. des. ois. 6. p. 163.
Petite perruche de Pérou. Buff. pl. enlum. n. 190. f. 2.