Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

Family Psittacidæ.

Generic Character.—Zool. Journ. 2, p. 46.—Less. Man. 2, p. 145.

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Specific Character.

Green; head pale bluish; frontal line and stripe on the lower jaw black; wings with a central spot of yellowish; breast pale red.

Le Perruche a moustaches. Buffon. Sonn. 27, p. 185, Pl. Enl. 517.

—— a poitrine rose. Levail. Pl. 31.

P. Pondicerianus. Kuhl, Nova Acta, &c. No. 48*.

Paleornis Pondicerianus. Vigors. Zool. Journ. 2, p. 54.