486 PSITTACIDiE. 



1. Aprosmictus cyanopygius *. 



Tabuan Pan-ot, Phill. Toy. But. Bay, pi. to p. 153 (1789) ; White, 



Journ. of a Toy. to New South Wales, pi. to p. 163 (ad.), 169 



(jun.) (1790). 

 Psittacus tabuensis, Tar. /3, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 88 (1790). 

 Psittacus tabuanus, Shaw, Mas. Lever, ii. p. 29, pi. 8 (1796). 

 La Grande Perrucbe a. collier et croupion bleus, Levaill. Pen\ 



pis. 55 (<S ad.), 56 ($ jun.) (1801). 

 Tabuan Parrot, var. A (<? ) et B ( 2 jun.), Lath. Syn. Supj^. ii. p. 81 



(1802). 

 Psittacus tabuensis, var. y, Lath. Suppl. Ind. Orn. p. xx ( 2 jun.) 



(1802). 

 Psittacus Tabuensis, Shaic, Gen. Zoo!, viii. 2, p. 407 (excl. var.), 



pi. 55 (1811) ; Bechst. Kurze Ueb. p. 69 (1811) ; Hahn, Orn. AtL, 



Papag. p. 15, t. 4 (1834). 

 Psittacus cyanopygius, Vieill. N .D. xxv. p. 339 (1817) (ex Levail- 



lant) ; id. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1381 (1823) ; id. Gal. des Ois. iii. 



pp. l,2,pls.l,2(-?). 

 Psittacus scapulatus, Bechst. fide Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 56 (1820) ; 



Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 731 (1831). 

 Platycercus scapularis (errore ?), Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 57 (1820) ; 



Sw. Zool. III. 2nd ser. pi. 26 (1829) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 207 



(1831) ; Stv. Class. B. ii. p. 305 (1836) ; Less. Compl. de Buff. ix. 



p. 219 (1837), 2nd ed. p. 611 (1838). 

 Scarlet and Green Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 11G, Tar. A, B 



(jun.) (1822). 



* Tbe following bird, according to Ramsay, is only an individual variety 

 (hisus natures) of Aprosmictus cyanopygius. The only specimen known was 

 Bbot a few miles north of the village of Dalby, on the Darling Downs, in 

 Queensland. Mr. Shaw, who shot the bird, informed Mr. Ramsay that it had 

 pairc d with a female, in the ordinary plumage of that sex, of A. cyanopygius : — 



Aprosmictus insignissimus. 



Aprosmictus insignissimus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 500, 1875, p. 314 ; 



id. B. New Guhi. pt. i. pi. 9 (1875) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ii. p. DJ3, n. 468, et p. 208 (lusus nat.) (1878); id. Tab. List, p. 30 



(1888). 

 Platycercus insignissimus, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 127 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 63) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. n. 15 (1883). 



" Ilead emerald -green, excepting the centre of the crown and a patch on 

 the nape, these parts being scarlet, the green forming a narrow frontal line 

 between the nostrils and the crown ; round tbe hind neck a narrow collar of 

 emerald-green ; back, including the mantle and scapulars, deep grass-green, 

 each feather obscurely edged with darker colour ; lower back and rump 

 shining blue ; upper tail-coverts bright grass-green ; all the tail-feathers above 

 deep grass-green, with indistinct narrow bars of darker colour on every one of 

 them ; the underside of tbe tail uniform purplish black ; wings green, with a 

 broad longitudinal patch of yellow, many of these feathers edged with scarlet, 

 this mark being very indistinct and similar to that seen in the male Ptistes; 

 under wing-coverts greenish blue ; inner lining of quills purplish black like 

 the lower surface of the tail ; under surface of body scarlet, with dashes of 

 bright green on the flanks; under tail-coverts green, fringed with scarlet: 

 both mandibles of the bill bright orange-red; legs blackish. Total length 

 15J inches, wing 9, tail 7|, tarsus £." (Gould.) 



