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

by William Swainson

Tabuan, or King Parrakeet.

Family Psittacidæ.

Generic Character.—Lesson. Man. 2, 146.

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Specific Character.

Green; head, neck, and body beneath scarlet; lower part of the back blue; scapular covers with a pea green stripe; tail black.

Tabuan Parrot. White's Voyage, pl. in p. 168 (male).

Grande Perruche à collier et croupion bleus. Le Vail. Par. pl. 55.

Platycercus scapularis. Vig. and Hors. Linn. Trans. 15, 1, 284.