11001-73606 Red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae novaezelandiae) turquoise mutation. This museum mounted speciman is at least 120 years old. It is the only turquoise mutation of a wild kakariki ever documented, it was collected in Southland in the 1800's. The remarkable colour is caused by an inherited recessive mutation that results in the birds inability to produce yellow pigment. The red colour on the crown and eye stripe is also affected and appears as a salmon colour instead. This colour mutation, incorrectly referred to as blue or even aqua, is most accurately termed ParBlue *
11001-72901 Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) male in myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghami) *
11001-72819 Crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans) male in eucalypt. No longer considered naturalised in NZ. A breeding population of this species in Dunedin died out in the 1950s, and the the small breeding population in Wellington city appears to have died out in the early 2000s. The few birds that have been seen elsewhere in the country are probably recent cage escapees. Wellington *
