(PLATE 8.)
This parrot is described by the Sieur D.B. (Dubois) in the following
terms:--"Body the size of a large pigeon, green; head, tail and upper part
of wings the colour of fire." As he compares it with the other parrots
which are true _Palaeornis_, it is evident that this bird must have been a
_Necropsittacus_.
This description is the sole evidence we have of the existence of this
bird.
Habitat: Bourbon or Réunion.