The specimen here delineated may be thus described.

Length twenty-four inches:  bill brown, the upper mandible tinged with red:  the head, neck, and all the under parts of the body a bright scarlet:  the back and wings a fine green.  On the lower part of the neck, between that and the back, a crescent of blue:  the tail long and cuneiform, most of its feathers deep blue:  the legs ash coloured:  on the upper part of the wings a narrow line of lighter green.

Pennantian parrot.  Order and Genus the same.  Species, 134.

Size of the scarlet lory, length sixteen inches:  the bill of a blueish horn colour; the general colour of the plumage scarlet; the base of the under mandible and the chin covered with rich blue feathers:  the back black, the feathers edged with crimson:  wings blue, down the middle much paler than the rest:  the quills and tail black, the feathers edged outwardly with blue, and three of the outer tail feathers, from the middle to the end, of a pale hoary blue:  the tail is wedge shaped, the middle feathers eight inches in length; the outermost, or shortest, only four:  the bottom of the thighs blue, legs dusky, claws black.

This beautiful bird is not unfrequent about Port Jackson, and seems to correspond greatly with the Pennantian Parrot, described by Mr. Latham in the supplement to his General Synopsis of Birds, p. 61. differing in so few particulars, as to make us suppose it to differ only in sex from that species.

Pacific Paroquet.  Order and Genus the same.  Species L vi.  A new variety.

Mr. Latham’s description is this: 

“Length twelve inches, bill of a silvery blue; end black:  in some, the forehead and half the crown; in others, the forehead only, of a deep crimson:  behind each eye a spot of the same colour:  on each side of the vent a patch of the same:  the plumage in general of a dark green, palest on the under parts:  the tail is cunei-form; the two middle feathers are five inches and an half in length; the outer ones two inches and an half; upper parts of it the same green with the body; beneath ash colour:  the outer edge of the wings, as far as the middle of the quills, deep blue; the ends of the quills dusky:  legs brown:  claws black.”  Latham’s Synopsis, vol.  I. p. 252.

The variety here represented has a brown bill, tinged with red at the end, and a cap of azure blue at the back of the head, interspersed with a few small feathers of a yellowish green; the top of the wings is of a yellow hue, and there are no blue feathers in the wings.

The sacred king’s fisher.  Order of Birds ii.  Pies.  Genus XXIII.  Species 12.

The following description is extracted from Mr. Latham’s Synopsis of Birds, vol. ii. p. 623.  The specimen here represented, being the same as his fourth variety of that species marked D.

“This in size is rather less than a blackbird:  the bill is black; the lower mandible yellowish at the base:  head, back, wings, and tail, blue tinged with green:  the under parts of the body white, extending round the middle of the neck like a collar:  legs blackish.”