488 



tstttacid-t:. 



c, d. Ad. et 5mm. 



sk. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. 

 g. <3 ad. sk. 

 h, i. $ ad. sk. 



k. <5 ad. sk. 

 /. Imm. sk. 

 m. Imm. sk. 

 n. 2 a d- skeleton. 

 o, p. Skeletons. 



N.E. Queensland. 



Clarence River. 



New South Wales (/. T. 



Cockerel!) . 

 New South Wales. 

 Sydney. 



New South Wales. 



Gould Coll. 



Sydney Museum [P.]. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Aprosmictus chloropterus. 



Aprosmictus chloropterus, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. 



p. 251 (1879), iv. p. 96 (1879); Sahad. Ibis, 1879, p. 320; 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 628 ( 1879) ; Rchnw. u. 



Schat, Journ. f. Om. 1880, p. 208; Saload. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. 



p. 136 (1880) ; id. Ibis, 1881, p. 287 ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., 



Zool. xvi. p. 425 (1882) ; Sahad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xviii. 



p. 418, n. 4 (1882); id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 515 (1882); 



Finsch u. Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 3; Sahad. Mem. 



R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 159 (1889). 

 Aprosmictus broadbenti, Sharpe, Ann. §• Mar/. N. II. (5) iii. p. 313 



(1879); id. Ibis, 1879, p. 307, 1880, p. 379; Rchmo. u. Schal. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1879, p. 312. 

 Platycercus chloropterus, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 130 



(Consp. Psitt. p. 66); id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 16 (1883). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and under surface carmine-red ; nape, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts bright blue ; 

 interscapular region and scapulars black, with a slight tinge of 

 green ; under tail-coverts dark blue, broadly edged with red ; 

 wings dark green ; a yellow-green long patch from the bend of the 

 wing to the innermost greater upper wing-coverts ; edge of the wing 

 blue ; tail above dark blue, with a tinge of green towards the base ; 

 quills and tail below black : bill black, with the base of the upper 

 mandible red ; feet black. Total length l-i-8 inches, wing 7 - 6, 

 tail 8-7, bill 0*9, tarsus 0*7. 



Female. Green ; throat and breast duller, with the feathers 

 edged with dull red ; abdomen red ; under tail-coverts dark blue, 

 broadly edged with red ; rump and upper tail-coverts blue : central 

 tail-feathers dark green, towards the tip blue, lateral tail-feathers 

 more blue and less green at the base, all tipped with rosy red : bill 

 and feet as in the male. 



Young. Like the female, but with no red edges to the feathers 

 of the throat and breast ; the bill in the dry skin dark towards the 

 base, yellowish towards the tip. 



Hub. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. Juv. sk. 



Port Moresby. — Broadbent [C.]. 



(Type of A. broadbenti, Sharpe.) 

 Port Moresby. Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



