ORNITHOLOGY.
PLATE XXX.
PSITTACUS MELANOPTERUS
BLACK WINGED PARRAKEET.
Order
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.
Pale green, back and wings black: secondary wing feathers yellow, at the tip blue: tail purple with a black band.
Psittacus Melanopterus: pallide viridis, dorso alisque nigris, remigibus secundariis luteis apice cæruleis, rectricibus purpureis fascia nigra.—Lath. Ind. Orn. T. 1. p. 132. n. 152.
Psittacus Melanopterus: pallide viridis, dorso, tectricibus alarum, caudæ fascia remigibusque primariis nigris, secundariis flavescentibus cæruleo punctatis.—Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 1. p. 350. n. 132.
Perruche aux ailes variées.—Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois. 6. p. 172.
Petite perruche de Batavia.—Buff. Pl. enlum. n. 791. f. 1.
Petite perruche de l’isle de Luçon.—Sonner. it. p. 78. t. 41.