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London. Published by E. Donovan & Mess.rs Simpkin & Marshall Feb. 1, 1823.
ORNITHOLOGY.
PLATE XXXIII.
PSITTACUS MACULATUS
SPOTTED BREASTED 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.
Green: crown, hind, head and nape black: temples cinereous: throat, neck, and breast fuscous with the margins of the feather sulphureous: shoulder scarlet: rump and middle of the abdomen sanguineous.
Psittacus Maculatus: viridis: vertice, occipite, nuchaque nigris: temporibus cinereis: gula, collo, pectoreque fuscis marginibus pennarum sulphureis: humeris coccineis: uropygio abdomineque medio sanguineis.
A very rare species of the Parrakeet tribe, and which is presumed to be a native of South America.