(PLATE 6, full figure.)
_Long-billed Parrakeet_ Latham, Gen. Hist. II, p. 171 (1822).
_Nestor norfolcensis_ Pelzeln, Sitzb. k. Akad. Wiss. XLI, pp. 322-325,
pl.--(1860--detailed description from the manuscript of the late
botanist, Ferdinand Lucas Bauer, and figure of head with an evidently
abnormally developed bill. The specimen was from Norfolk Island; it had
disappeared before Pelzeln's time).
Latham's original description is as follows: "Length above 12 inches. Bill
very long and curved, thick halfway from the base, but tapering quite to a
point at the tip, and under mandible truncated at the end, colour of both,
dusky; head and neck dull green; sides under the eyes, chin and throat pale
crimson; upper parts of the body, wings and tail dusky; breast yellowish;
belly, thighs and vent more or less crimson; tail cuneiform; legs brown."
"One of these was in possession of Governor Hunter, who brought it from
Norfolk Island; from the bill it seems related to the other, but the tail
is cuneiform in a much greater degree, without any bars across it."
The only bird of this species extant is the one in Liverpool, from the
Tristram collection.
Governor Hunter's specimen and Bauer's bird were both brought from Norfolk
Island, but as they were cage-birds, and differed so markedly from _N.
productus_, I, for reasons given under _N. productus_, believe this bird
came from Lord Howe's Island.
Habitat: Lord Howe's Island (?).
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