478 PSITTACICE. 



b. A rosy-red patch towards the tips of the innermost 

 great wing-coverts and innermost secondaries ; 

 general colour of the male, including the rump, 

 jonquil-yellow ; female duller, more olive, and 

 with the inner webs of the lateral tail-feathers 

 edged with rosy red melanura, p. 479. 



1. Polytelis barrabandi. 



Psittacus barrabandii, Siu. (necKuhl) Zool. Illmtr. i. pi. 59 (1820-21). 

 Scarlet-breasted Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 121 (1822). 

 Palteornis barrabandi, Vig. Zool ' Jonrn. ii. p. 50 (1825); 77//. .V 



Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 287 (1826) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 



2, p.'l28 (1826) ; Vig. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 244 (1827) ; Selby, Nat. 



Libr., Parrots, p. 69, pi. i. (1836) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 410, 



(1846). 

 Psittacus swainsoni, Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxix. p. 39 (1826). 

 Paleornis? rosaceus, Vig. Zool. Journ. v. p. 274 (young) (1830); 



Lear, Parr. pi. 30 (1832) ; Less. Compl. de Buff. ix. p. " (1837) ; 



id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 614 (1838) ; G R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 410, 



n. 7 (1846). 

 Polytelis ? barrabandi, Wagl. Mon. J'sitt, pp. 489, 519 (1832) ; Gould, 



Si/n. B. Austr. pt. iv. pi. — . figs. 2, 3 ( — '?) ; id. B. Amtr. v. pi. 15 



(pt. xviii., 1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 7 (1849) ; Iichnb. 



Neuentd. Vbg. N. Holl. n. 454 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



ii. p. 31 (1865) ; G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 138, n. 8005 (1870) ; 



Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 193, n. 464 (1878) ; Salvin, 



Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 458 (1882) ; Select. List Vert, An. 8th ed. 



p. 324 (1883); Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 16, n. 482 (1888); Tristr. 



Cat. Coll. B. p. 75 (1889) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, 



p. 40 (1891). 

 Psittacus sagittifer barrabandi, Bourj. Pen: pi. 4 (1837-38). 

 Psittacus sagittifer rosaceus, Bourj. Pen: pi. 6 (1837-38). 

 Barrabandius rosaceus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 2 (1850); id. Rev. et 



Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 182 ; Soucmce, Rev. et May. de Zool. 



1856, p. 212 ; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consj). Psitt. n. 184. 

 Platycercus rosaceus, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 9 (1859) ; 



Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 98 (1864) ; id. op. cit. Revue, p. 40 



(1874). 

 Polyteles barrabandi, Gould, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 232 ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 



1876, p. 092 ; Heine et Rchnu: Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 241 



(1890). 

 Polyteles rosaceus, Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. p. xi 



(1863). 

 Platycercus barrabandi, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 259 (1867) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. iii. p. 216 (1877) ; Rchnu: Vogelbild, t. iii. f. 1 (1878-83) ; 



id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 133 (Consp. Psitt. p. 69). 



Adult male. Green ; sinciput, cheeks, and throat rich gamboge- 

 yellow ; immediately beneath the yellow of the throat a crescent of 

 scarlet ; lores and orbital region green ; occiput emerald-green ; 

 quills, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts bluish green ; quills 

 underneath black ; tail-feathers green, with a bluish tiugo, under- 

 neath black, with lighter tips : thighs green, but sometimes red : 

 "iris orange-yellow; bill rich red; feet brown" (Gould). Total 

 length 16 inches, wing 7'2, tail 9, bill 0-7, tarsus 0-57. 



