. Illustrations of ornithology . ceccaj <-JZa#iC&uM,-. ■JZaTi/e^c^y PLATYCERCUS STANLEYII, Stanleys Parrakeet. PLATE CVIII. P. viridis, capite supra corporeque subtus coccineis; genis gulaque sulphureis; hu-meris, remigibus externis rectricibusque lateralibus azureis. Platycercus Stanleyii, Fig. MS. for No. 17- of Zool. Journ. Xhis beautiful species, lately brought from New Holland to this country,will be described by Mr Vigors in the forthcoming Number of the Zoo-logical Journal, and has been dedicated by that gentleman to Lord Stan-ley. Our drawing is taken from a living
. Illustrations of ornithology . ceccaj <-JZa#iC&uM,-. ■JZaTi/e^c^y PLATYCERCUS STANLEYII, Stanleys Parrakeet. PLATE CVIII. P. viridis, capite supra corporeque subtus coccineis; genis gulaque sulphureis; hu-meris, remigibus externis rectricibusque lateralibus azureis. Platycercus Stanleyii, Fig. MS. for No. 17- of Zool. Journ. Xhis beautiful species, lately brought from New Holland to this country,will be described by Mr Vigors in the forthcoming Number of the Zoo-logical Journal, and has been dedicated by that gentleman to Lord Stan-ley. Our drawing is taken from a living specimen now in his Lordshipscollection, either a female, or a male in the plumage of the first skins from which Mr Vigors took his description, which we haveadded in our specific character, had the crimson on the forehead brighter,and extending almost to the hinder part of the head. All those we haveseen, viz. a specimen sent to the Linnean Society by Mr Macleav, andone or two others in the possession of a dealer, were in the same state withthat
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