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pale greenish blue, with the bases black and fringed with black ; 

 under surface bluish, each feather fringed with black ; under tail- 

 coverts scarlet; wings blue, a black patch on the cubital wing- 

 coverts ; the inner secondaries and their coverts broadly edged with 

 bluish green ; quills underneath black ; central tail-feathers deep 

 blue, with a slight green tinge towards the base ; the next pair blue 

 on the outer web, black on the inner and tipped with light blue ; 

 the basal half of the remainder blackish brown on their inner 

 webs, deep blue on the outer, and the terminal half delicate pale 

 blue and tipped with white : " irides blackish brown ; bill horn- 

 colour ; feet dark mealy brown" (Gould). Total length 13 inches, 

 wing 6-5 to 6-2, tail 6-4, bill 0-68, tarsus 0'7. 



Female. Like the male in plumage. 



Hab. Eastern Australia, from Port Denison to Victoria, and also 

 the Interior. 



There is a good deal of individual variation in this species : 

 some specimens have the cheeks entirely white, with no blue border 

 below ; others have scattered red feathers, especially on the head, 

 and the upper breast tinged with yellow. I suspect that all this 

 arises from hybridization or atavism, if we admit that this species 

 was derived from one having a red head. 



a, b. Ad. st. (var.). 



c. Ad. sk. (variety). 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /, g. Ad. sk. 



h, i, k. Ad. sk. 



(variety). 

 I. Ad.sk. (variety). 

 m. Ad. sk. 



n, o. Ad. sk. (var.), 



p. Ad. sk. 

 q. Inini. sk. 

 r. Skull. 



N.E. Australia 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Australia. 

 Australia. 

 Australia. 



Australia. 

 Australia (J. 



erell). 

 Australia (J. 

 erell). 

 Australia. 

 Australia. 



T. Cock- 



Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 

 Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 

 J. E. W. Rishton, Esq. 



[P-l- 

 Mrs. Bell [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Massena Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



T. Cock- Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Purchased. 



6. Platycercus amathusia. 



Platycercus amathusia, Gould, MS. ; Bp. Compt. Rend. xxx. p. 133 

 (1850) ; id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 176 ; id. Nau- 

 mannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 177: Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 197 

 (1868) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 137, n. 7987 (1870) ; Gieb. 

 Thes. Om. ii. p. 215 (1877) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 

 p. 194, n. 479 (1878) ; Rchmo. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 119 {Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 55) ; id. Voc/elbild. Nachtr. 12 (1883) ; Ramsay, Tab. 

 List, p. 16, n. 495 (1888). 



Platycercus cyanogenys, Gould, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 166 ; id. B. Austr. 

 Suppl. pi. 63 (pt. ii., 1855) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 4 

 (1859) ; id, Cat. B. Neio Guin. p. 59 (1859) ; Gould, Handb. B. 

 Austr. ii. p. 52 (1865) ; Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 602. 



