. Illustrations of ornithology . y%7, s///. f//-/Y/.j - f////,//,j/.j. //// r rr//.J ■ - -V/vV//va/a/ PLATYCERCUS TABUENSIS, (nobis).Tabuan Parrakeet. PLATE LXXIV. P. capite, collo, pectore, abdomine crissoque purpureo-rubris; dorso, scapularibus,europigioque nitide viridibus hoc purpureo-rubro fasciata; remigibus nigrisrachi exteriori supra coeruleo; cauda lata rectricibus mediis viridibus, exteriori-bus coeruleo marginatis. Tabuan Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. ii. p. 115. pi. xxii. Psittacus Tabuensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. ?—Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol, torn.


. Illustrations of ornithology . y%7, s///. f//-/Y/.j - f////,//,j/.j. //// r rr//.J ■ - -V/vV//va/a/ PLATYCERCUS TABUENSIS, (nobis).Tabuan Parrakeet. PLATE LXXIV. P. capite, collo, pectore, abdomine crissoque purpureo-rubris; dorso, scapularibus,europigioque nitide viridibus hoc purpureo-rubro fasciata; remigibus nigrisrachi exteriori supra coeruleo; cauda lata rectricibus mediis viridibus, exteriori-bus coeruleo marginatis. Tabuan Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. ii. p. 115. pi. xxii. Psittacus Tabuensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. ?—Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol, torn. i. pars i. p. 57-Pompadour Parrakeet; Psittaccus atro-purpureus, Shaws Gen. Zool. vol. viii. p. 409. In a group so extensive as the Parrots, and found, one excepted, in everyquarter of the world, it is natural to expect some, if not a great variety ofform and habit, and we accordingly find them divided either into severalsections, or into distinct genera. By Kuhl our species is placed in his sec-tion (amounting almost to a genus) Conurus, and Mr Vigors has forme


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