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■wing and outermost upper wing-coverts blue ; the innermost median 

 and greater upper wing-coverts black, with a green longitudinal band 

 inside the yellowish edges ; primaries and anterior secondaries black, 

 edged with blue near the base ; inner secondaries black, edged with 

 yellow and green ; two central tail-feathers green, passing into 

 bluish at the tip ; the remainder of the tail-feathers dark blue at 

 the base, passing into light blue and tipped with white : bill white 

 horn-colour ; feet and naked skin round the eyes dusky flesh-colour ; 

 iris black. Size of P. elegans. (Gardens of the Zool. Soc. of London.) 



Fi male. Similar to tbe male, only smaller and more yellow on 

 the sides of the breast and on the flanks. (Gardens of the Zool. Soc. 

 of London.) 



Hah. Australia. 



This species is intermediate between P. elegans and P. eximius. 

 The red colour of the head and breast is, like that of P. eximius, 

 a little brighter than in P. elegans. The feathers of the upper back 

 have broad red edges like P. elegans, while the scapulars are edged 

 with pale yellow as in P. eximius, but tipped with red. The 

 predominant red colour of the underparts connects the new species 

 with P. elegans, but the yellow bases of the red feathers of the 

 breast and abdomen show a certain affinity to P. eximius • the 

 yellow colour on the middle of the abdomen and on the flanks, and 

 the two central tail-feathers being green, passing into bluish at the 

 tip, also betray affinity with P. eximius. The red edges of the 

 yellowish feathers of the lower back and rump is a peculiar feature 

 of this bird. The cheeks blue in the lower part and white near 

 the lower mandible show more than anything else how truly inter- 

 mediate this bird is between the blue-cheeked P. elegans and the 

 white-cheeked P. eximius. 



9. Platycercus eximius. 



Psittacus eximius, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 93 (1792); id. New Hall. 



Zool. pi. i. (1794) j Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxi (1801) ; Shaw, 



Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 411, pis. 57, 58 (1811) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. 



p. 354 (1817) ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 54 (1820 ) : Vieill. Enc. Meth. 



iii. p. 1391 (1823) : id. Gal. des Ois. iii. pi. — (1823) ; Voigt, Cur. 



Uebers. p. 730 (1831) ; Thiennn. Fortpfl. d. ges. Yog. p. 72 (1846). 

 Perruche omnicolore, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Par. pis. 28, 29 (1801). 

 Nonpareil Parrot, Lath. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 85 (1802): id. Gen. Hist 



ii. p. 138 (1822). 

 Psittacus capitatus, Shaw, den. Zool. viii. 2, p. 466 (1811); Kuhl. 



Oonep. P.<itt. p. 100 (1820). 

 Psittacus omnicolor, Bechst. Lath. Uebers. p. fi8, pi. 2 (1811). 

 Psittacus pennnuti, fcem., Wolf, Abbild. merkw. naturh. Oegen. H. 4 



t. 17; Halm. Orn. Atl, Pdpag. t. 24 (1834) ; Dubois, Orn. Gat. 



pi. 52 B (1889). 

 Platycercus eximius, Viij. Z<»,1. Jmirn. i. p. 528 (1825) ; Vi<j. *$• Horsf. 



Trans. Linn, Soc. xv. p. 281 (1826) j Step* Gen. Zool. xiv. 2. 



p. 120 (1826); Via- Zool. Journ. iii. p. 244(1827): id. P. Z. 8. 



1831, p. 86; Less. Tr.oVOrn, p. 209 (1831); Wagl Mm. Psitt. 



p. 581 ( 1832) ; Gould, Sgn. B. Austr. pi. — . f. 2 (183- ?); Hart I. 



