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403. Platycercus caledonicus. 



Psiltacus caledonicus Gmelin, Sifal. Xnl. p. 328. 1788 : Tasmania. 

 Syuonynis : 



Psittaciis brownii KuliI, Xur. Act. PInjx, Acad. Lenp. Qinil. vol. x. p. ,5lj. 1820 : Tasmania. 

 l'xilllti'iisfi(rii/iixl,r Temminck, Tniiis. Linn. Sue. (f.nnil.) vol. xiii. p. 110. 1821 : Tasmania. 

 Psillacux flaricfnti-iii id., ili. p. 117 : Tasmania. 

 Platycercus xantlinf/ustcr Stephens, in Shaw's lien. Zunt. .\iv. p. 120. 182G: Tasmania. 



Green Parrot. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 338. 

 Range : Tasmania. 



]\'oti\ — Though Gmelin described this bird as from New ( 'aledonia, tliere 

 is no donl)t that this identity is absolutely correct and that tiio bird came from 

 Tasmania, its only habitat. 



464. Platycercus adscitus adscitus. 



Psitlacus adscitus Latham, Inde.r Ornilh. vol. i. p. 12li. 1790: Cooktown, Qneenslaui). 



BIne-cheekeil Parrot. 



Mathews, ll,ii,(Hi>it No. 340 (pars). 



Range : Qneensland (f 'oolttown to Mackay). 



465. Platycercus adscitus palliceps. 



Plalifcerrm pnUiceps Lear, Illnstr. PsiUac. pt. xii. 1832: New South Wales. 



Pale-beaded Parrot. 

 Mathews, HaiKllisf No. 339. 

 Range : New South Wales. 



460. Platycercus adscitus amathusiae. 



Plati/cercns nmalhiisiae Bonaparte, Cuniples Rindns Sci. (Paris), vol. xxx. p. 13.3. 1850: Cape York, 

 Queensland. 



Synonym : 



Platycercus cyanogenys Gould, Proc. Zool. Snc. (Lund.) IK>!'). p. IfiG : Cape York, Queensland 



Northern Blue-cheeked Parrot. 

 Mathews, Hrnicllist No. 340 (pa.rs). 

 Range : North Queensland (Gape York). 



407. Platycercus adscitus elseyi snbsji. n. 



Grey-rnmped Parrot. 



Differs from P. a. amathusiae, in its paler rump. 

 Type : Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, No. 9867. 

 Range: Interior of Queensland. 



Xote. — Salvadori dismissed P. ai/scifu.s as indeterminable after trying to fi.^ it 

 on P. palliceps Vigors and Horstield, but in just the characters wherein /'. palliceps 

 failed to fulfil the descrii)tion the form from Cooktown agrees. It was described 

 as the " Blue-cheeked Parrot " by Latham, the very name chosen by the A.O.U. 

 Vernac. Comm. for the Cape York form, and it would appear to have been brought 

 back by Captain t'ook and obtained near Cooktown. 



