



Produced by Tom Cosmas, from materials obtained at The Internet Archive








ILLUSTRATIONS

THE FAMILY OF PSITTACIDAE,

PARROTS:


THE GREATER PART OF THEM

SPECIES HITHERTO UNFIGURED,


CONTAINING


FORTY-TWO LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES,

DRAWINGS FROM LIFE, AND ON STONE,


By EDWARD LEAR, A.L.S.


LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY E. LEAR, 61 ALBANY STREET, REGENT'S PARK.

1832.


TO THE

Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,

THIS WORK

IS, BY HER MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION,

HUMBLY DEDICATED,


BY


HER MAJESTY'S

MOST DUTIFUL AND FAITHFUL SUBJECT,


E. LEAR.




LIST OF PLATES.


   1. Psittacus badiceps. _Bay-headed Parrot._
   2. Plyctolophus rosaceus. _Salmon-crested Cockatoo._
   3. ---- galeritus. _Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo._
   4. ---- sulphureus. _Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo._
   5. ---- Leadbeateri. _Leadbeater's Cockatoo._
   6. Calyptorhynchus Baudinii. _Baudin's Cockatoo._
   7. Macrocercus Aracanga. _Red and Yellow Maccaw._
   8. ---- Ararauna. _Blue and Yellow Maccaw._
   9. ---- hyacinthinus. _Hyacinthine Maccaw._
  10. Psittacara Patachonica. _Patagonian Parrakeet Maccaw._
  11. ---- leptorhyncha. _Long-billed Parrakeet Maccaw._
  12. ---- nana. _Dwarf Parrakeet Maccaw._
  13. Nanodes undul