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Species Profile

Genus:
Neophema

Species:
elegans

Size:	Adult Weight:
22cm (8.6 in)	40-51g (1.4-1.8 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-olive/yellow crown and upperparts; deep blue frontal band, bordered above by paler blue thin line going above and behind the eye; yellow face and throat; olive/yellow breast; yellow lower underparts and underside of tail, sometimes washed with orange on centre of abdomen; light blue outer median wing coverts; yellow/olive inner lesser and median wing coverts. Bill grey/black. Eye dark brown. Female-in general duller than male; orange usually absent on abdomen.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but frontal band minimal or absent; pale olive outer wing coverts, faintly margined with pale blue; in some females pale coloured underwing band obvious, but in general minimal in both sexes. Bill yellow/brown.

Call: In flight calls are a sharp or a somewhat weak whistling note. Silent or softly twittering while feeding.

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