yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps), red-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae), orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) Cyanoramphus auriceps, Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, Cyanoramphus malherbi
Original caption: “Yellow-fronted, Red-fronted, and Orange-fronted Parrakeets. Platycercus auriceps, P. novæ zealandiæ, and P. alpinus.”
English: Illustrations of the Yellow-crowned Parakeet, Red-crowned Parakeet and the Malherbe's/Orange-fronted Parakeet.
Date Published 1888
Source New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Author By J. G. Keulemans, in W.L. Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand. 2nd edition. Published 1888.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bul01BirdP016.jpg
The yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps) is a species of parakeet endemic to the islands of New Zealand. The species is found across the main three islands of New Zealand, North Island, South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura, as well as on the subantarctic Auckland Islands. Its Māori name is kākāriki.
The red-crowned parakeet or red-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae), also widely known by its Māori name of kākāriki, is a small parrot from New Zealand. It is characterised by its bright green plumage and the red pattern on its head.
Malherbe's parakeet usually known as the orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) or, in Māori, kākāriki karaka, is a small parrot endemic to New Zealand. In New Zealand it is always known as the orange-fronted parakeet, a name it shares with a species from Central America, while in the rest of the world it is known as Malherbe's parakeet.