FIGURE 9 in Reappraisal of the parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from the Mascarene Islands, with comments on their ecology, morphology, and affinities

FIGURE 9. An enigmatic skin of Psittacula RMS missing its tail, supposedly representing Psittacula eques held at RMS. This specimen is labelled 'Plate 39' from Buffon's planche elumineé (1779), the same plate number of Psittacula eques (see Systematic Palaeontology), from which the species was described. This may be the one and same specimen (see Jones 1987), or that the label refers to a Mauritius specimen, as these two populations were considered conspecific.