36. roLYTELis. 479 



Female. Green ; face bluish grey ; front part of the neck greyish 

 green; chest slightly tinged with dull rose-colour ; thighs scarlet ; 

 primaries bluish green ; central tail-feathers green, bluish in the 

 middle ; the remainder bluish green, with the inner webs edged 

 with rosy red : " iris brown ; bill pale reddish orange ; feet dark 

 brown " {Gould). 



Hah. Australia, from New South "Wales through the interior to 

 Victoria and South Australia. 



a. Ad. st. Australia. Warwick. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Australia. Warwick. 



c. Ad. st. Australia. Zool. Soc. Coll. 

 d-ff. <$ ad. et ad. sk. Australia (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. Imm. sk. Australia. Purchased. 



i. J ad. sk. New South "Wales. Hume Coll. 



2. Polytelis alexandrse. 



Polyteles alexandras, Gou/d, P.Z.8. 1863, p. 232. 



Polytelis alexandrae, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 32 (1865) ; id. B. 



Austr., Suppl. pi. 02 (pt. iv., 18(57) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 138, 



n. 8007 (1870); Higgles, Syn. B. Austr. p. 70, pi. 70 (1877); 



Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. A. S. W. ii. p. 193, n. 466 (1878) ; id. 



Tub. List, p. 16, n. 484 (1888) ; id. Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaei, 



p. 43 (1891) ; Lbis, 1891, p. 298. 

 Platvcercus alexandrse, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 2(il (1808); Rchnw. 



Jnum.f. Orn. 1881, p. 191 (Consp. Psitt. p. 69); id. Vogelbild. 



Nachtr. 17 (1883). 



Forehead delicate light blue ; lower part of the cheeks, chin, and 

 throat rose-pink ; head, nape, mantle, back, and scapulars olive- 

 green ; lower part of back and rump blue ; shoulders and wing- 

 coverts pale yellowish green ; external webs of the principal pri- 

 maries dull blue ; breast and abdomen olive-grey ; thighs rosy red ; 

 upper tail-coverts olive, tinged with blue ; two centre tail-feathers 

 bluish olive-green ; the two next on each side olive-green on their 

 outer webs, and dark brown on their inner ones ; the remaining 

 tail-feathers tri-coloured, the central portion being black, the outer 

 olive-grey, and the inner rosy red : bill coral-red ; feet mealy 

 brown. Total length 14 inches, bill k, wing 7, tail 9, tarsus £. 

 (Gould.) 



Hab. Central and Northern Australia. 



Quite recently, in the ' South Australia Eogister,' Aug. 23, 

 1890, Mr. M. Symonds Clark has mentioned and described two 

 living specimens of this rare bird, which were taken from the 

 nest in tho neighbourhood of Charlotte "Waters, about lat. 25° 40' S.. 

 long. 134° E. 



3. Polytelis melanura. 



Palfflornis melanurus, Vig. in Lear, Purr. pi. 28 (ad.) (1832). 

 Palseornis anthopeplus, Vig. in Lear. Purr. pi. 29 (young) (1833). 

 Palseornis melanura, start, Exped. in Austr. pi. — . p. 19] (1834). 

 Psittacus eagittifer melanura, Bourj, Pen: pi. 5 (ad.) (1837-38). 

 Psittacua sagittifer anthopeplus, Bourj. Par. pi. 7 (young) (1837-38). 



