45. PLATYCEKCUS. 549 



Platycereus pallidiceps. var. amathusiae. Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, 

 Psittaci, p. 59 (1891). 



Mult. Very much like P. pallidiceps, but differs in the cheeks 

 being almost entirely blue, in the paler yellowish edges of the 

 feathers of the back, in the more yellowish tinge of the bluish 

 feathers of the rump and upper tail-eoverts, in the yellow tinge of 

 the upper breast, in the greenish tinge of the blue colour of the 

 lower breast and abdomen, and in the more greenish tinge of the 

 base of the two central tail-feathers. Total length 12-5 inches 

 wing G, tail 5-8, bill 7, tarsus 065. 



Hab. Northern Australia, from Port Darwin to Rockingham Bay. 



Specimens from Gilbert River, collected by J. R. Elsey, are to a 

 certain extent intermediate between P. pallidiceps and typical 

 P. amadhusia, having the blue cheeks like the latter, and the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts pale bluish green, scarcely yellowish, like 

 the former. 



a, Ad. sk. Cape York (J. Macyi/livray). Voy.H.M.S. 'Rattle- 



snake.' (Type of 

 , . , . P- ctfanoqenys, Gould.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. N. Australia (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll 

 d, e. Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. TP.1 



/. 6 ad. sk. Gilbert River, N.W. Australia, J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.! 



Oct. H L J 



7. Platycereus browni. 



Psittacus browni, Temm. {nee Euhl) MS. (1819) ; id. Trans. Linn 

 Soc. xiii. p. 119 (1821) * ; Donovan, Nat. Reposit. ii. pi. 64 (1824) 



Psittacus venustus, Brown (nee Temm.) apud Kuhl, Consp. Psitt 

 p. 52 (1820). 



Brown's Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 139 (1822). 



Platycereus browni, Viy. Zool. Journ. i. p. 528 (1825) • Via & 

 Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 282 (1826) ; Stepb. Gen. Zool ' xiv 

 2, p. 120 (1826) ; Viy. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 245 (1827) ; Bourj Par 

 pi. 33 {ex Lear) (1837-38) ; Less. Compl. de Buff, ix. p 223 (1837) ' 

 id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 612 (1838) ; Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 31 (pt xvi 

 1844); Bchnh. NeuerOd. VHy. N. Holl. n. 183 (1850); Bp.Bev et 

 May. de Zool. 1854, p. 153. n. 180; id. Naumannia, 1856, Cuuy, 

 Psitt. n. 182 ; G. B. Gr. Cat. B. Netv Gain. p. 59 (1859) • Gould' 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 232; Fmsck, Papa,,, ii. p. 198 (1808) • G B 

 Or. Hand-Hat, ii. p. 137, u. 7989 (1870); Gieb. Thea Oni 

 iii. p. 216 (1877); Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. IV ii n 194' 

 n. 480 (1878); Bchmc. Voyelbild. t. xxiii. f. 5 (1878-83)- id 

 Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 118 (Consp. l>,itf. p. 51) . Bamsay', Tab 

 List, p. 10, n. 496 (1888); id. Cat. Au»tr. Birds. Psittaci, p. 60 



Platycereus venustus, Wayl. Mon. Psitt. p. 529 (1832) • Lear Parr 

 pi. 20 (1832) ; G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 13 (1846) ; id. List 



* I have shown elsewhere that the first part of this volume was published in 

 1821 as appears from those copies in which the titlepages of the first and 

 second parts have been prcse.-yed. 



