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cheeks blue ; feathers of the back and scapulars black, margined 

 with pale yellowish ; in some specimens between the black centre 

 and the yellowish margin there is a bluish tinge ; wings blue, with 

 a black patch on the cubital wing-coverts ; the inner wing-coverts 

 and also the inner secondaries black, edged with pale yellowish and 

 with a slight blue tinge ; central tail-feathers blue, the next pair 

 also blue on the outer webs and black on the inner, the remainder 

 with the basal portion of their outer webs deep blue, passing into 

 very pale blue towards their tips, the extreme tip being white : 

 " bill light horn-colour ; feet dark brown " {Gould). Total length 

 14 inches, wing 6-4, tail 7, bill 075, tarsus 0-75. 



Female. Similar to the male, but slightly smaller (Ramsay). 



Young. Much more greenish than the adult ; frontal band red, 

 but narrower ; cheeks blue ; upper parts olive, feathers of the back 

 blackish in the centre ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish olive ; 

 inner wing-coverts and inner secondaries also olive : a white band 

 on the quills underneath ; central tail-feathers olive. 



Sab. Australia, from Victoria to ]New South Wales and the 

 Interior. 



a, b. Ad. sk. S. Australia. Hon. E. India Co. [P.]. 



c, d. d ad. sk. River Murray, Oct. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



e,f. Ad. ak. Australia. Could Coll. 



y-k. Ad. et inim. Australia (J. T. Cock- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. erell). 



I. Irani, sk. Australia. Purchased. 

 m. Skeleton. 



4. Platycercus flaviventris *. 



La Perruche a large queue (l re Var.), Levaill. Pen: pi. 80 (1805). 

 Psittacus flavigaster, Temm. MS. (1819) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 



p. 110(1821). 

 Psittacus flaviventris, Temm. MS. (1819); id. I. c. pp. 117, 118 (1821). 

 Psittacus brownii, KuJd {nee Temm.), (hasp. Psitt. p. 50 (1820) ; 



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

 Van Diemens Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist ii. p. 130, with var. \. p. 131 



(young) (1822). 



ed. p. Oil (1838); Schley. Mas. P.-B. Psi'ttaci, p" 98 (18Gi):~id. 

 op. cit. Revue, p. 40 (1874). 



* The following quotations probably also refer to the present species :— 



? New Caledonian Parrot, Lath. Gen. San. i. p. 248, n. 49 (1781) ■ id Gen 

 Hist. p. 173 (1822). " 



? Psittacus oaledonicus, Gm. 8. X. i. p. 328, n. 82 (1788) ; Lath. Ind Om 

 i. p. 102, n. 67 (1790); Beohst. Kurze Ueb. p. 78 (1811); Vieill N D 

 xxv. p. 353 (1817); id. Enc. Mith. iii. p. 1391 (1823). 



? Psittacus bisetis, foem., Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 452 (1811). 



? Platycercus caledonicus, G. R. Gr. List Psitf. Brit. Mia p 4 (1859) ■ 

 id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 164 J id. Cat. B. Trap. 1st. p. 29(1859); Ferr' 

 Rev. et Maa. de Zool. 18(50, p. 387 ; Marie, Act. Soc. Linn. Lord xxvii 

 p. 327 (1870); Ibis, 1877, p. 302; Lauard, Ibis. 1878, p. 253; Oust 

 /•' '■'. Soc. Phihm. Paris, 1879, p. 218. 



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