The figures are those of an adult and an immature bird, in course of change from the green plumage to that adult dress of the natural size.
PLATYCERCUS PENNANTII.
J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
PLATYCERCUS PENNANTII.
Pennant’s Parrakeet.
Psittacus Pennantii, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 90.
———— gloriosus, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pl. 53.
———— splendidus, Shaw, Mus., Lev. pl. 7. p. 27.
Perruche à large queue, Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. des Perr., pls. 78, 79.
Pennantian Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. i. p. 61; vol. ii. p. 83.—Phill. Bot. Bay, pl. in p. 154.—White’s Journ., pl. in pp. 174, 175.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 410. pl. 56.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 131.
Psittacus elegans, Gmel. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 318.—Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nova Acta, vol. x. p. 55.