45. platycercus. 541 



i'. Larger : total length 125 inches ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts olive-grey ; central tail- 

 feathers dull blue xanthogenys *, p. 555. 



1. Platycercus elegans. 



Beautiful Lory, Lath. Syn. i. p. 217, n. 20, with var. A, p. 218 



(1781). 

 Penuantian Parrot, Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. 61, with var (1787V 



Phill. Hot. Bay, p. 154, pi. 20 (1789; ; White, Journ. p. 174,' 



pis. 13, 14 (1/90) ; Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 83, with var. A (180°) • 



id. Gen. Hist. ii. pp. 131, 132, var. A, B (1822). 

 Psittacus elegans, Gm. S. N. i. p. 318, n. 59, with var. 8 (1788) 



(ex Latham) ; Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 89, n. 23, with var. B (1790) • 



/?",((• N JP: XXV - P- 338 ^ 1817 > i KM < Con *P- P^tt. p. 55 

 (1820) ; J leill. Eric. Meth. iii. p. 1381 (1823). 



Psittacus pennantii, Lath. lad. Orn. i. p. 90, n. 26, with var 3 



(1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 410, pi. 56 (1811); Bec'hst. 



Kurze Uebers. p. ,0 (1811) ; Vieill. X. D. xxv. p. 339 (1817) • id 



Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1381 (1823) ; id. Gal. des Ois. iii. pp. 1 2 with 



P 1 - — J 1&J 3) ! T^' Cuv - Uebers - P- " 30 ( 1831 ); Hahn, Orn. 

 Atl, Papag. p. 39, t. 23 (mas) (1834) ; Dubois, Orn. Gal pi 52 

 var. A (cJ) (1839); Downing, Proc. Bog. Soc. Tasm. iii p 208 

 (1859) (Norfolk Isl.). l 



* I am not acquainted with the following, which has been described bv 

 Mr. Kamsay without pointing out the species to which it is allied • it is 

 described as having blue cheeks : — 



Platycercus mastersia.ws, Eamsay. 

 Platycercus mastersianus, Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W ii n 27 HS771 

 p. 194, n. 483 (1878); Bchnw. Journ, f. Orn. 1881,' p. U8(Conin 



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hJif Ti T °!- al l eT t Sth /SP*, U , ' nches ' win ^ 5 ' 8 ' tail Q ' 3 ' t™™ 0-8, 

 bill 7. The front, top of the head, nape, and ear-coverts crimson, mottled 

 with yellow on the sides of the head, ear-coverts, and nape: feathers of the 

 hind neck and back yellowish at the tips, blackish on concealed portions, 

 these on the neck washed with red and tinged on the sides with bluish green • 

 rump and upper tail-coverts crimson, the outer series of the latter greenish • 

 scapulars back, broadly margined with yellowish, mingled with red and blue- 

 shoulders deep blue, smaller coverts deep blue, centred with black or black 

 margined with blue, median coverts light blue ; outer webs of primaries and 

 secondaries blue the inner webs and the tips of the primaries black ; underside 

 of the wing black traversed about the middle of the quills with aii indistinct 

 broken white band (in a young specimen this white bund is complete) ■ under 

 wing-coverts blue; cheeks blue, palest near the mandible; under tail-coverts 

 crimson ; chest bluish green, margined with yellow, many of the feathers 

 centred with a largo crimson spot; abdomen and flanks bluish green the tins of 

 the lower flank-feathers crimson ; tail black below, the apical half of all excent 

 the two centre feathers blue and tipped with white, more largely on the inner 

 than on the outer feathers; centre tail-feathers above greenish on the inner 

 webs, blue on the outer ; the rest blackish at the base, blue on the outer webs 

 the anterior third of each leather light blue and tipped with white the soot 

 increasing in size as the feather is more internal. Bill bluish at the base 

 Whitish at the tip (probably faded); feet dark brown; iris, in a yoimVliriS 

 example, dark hazel. • ° " vllJ o 



Hah. " Interior of New South Wales. " 



