552 PSITTACID.E. 



Syst. Vers. Ges. Mus. p. 84 (1844) ; Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 27 

 (pt. xxii., 1846) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 7 (1846) ; Rchnb. 

 Neuentd. Vdg. N. Holl. n. 447 (1850) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A.S.B. 

 p. 7 (1849) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 178 ; 

 Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 212 ; Bp. Naumannia, 

 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 179 ; Horsf. fy Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. 

 Comp. ii. p. 624 (1858) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 5 

 (1859) ; Homeyer, Journ. f. Om. 1859, p. 360 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 

 1862, p. 22 ; Finsch, Ned. fijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. p. xii (1863) ; 

 Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 96 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 

 ii. p. 55 (1865) ; Midi. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 279 ; Finsch, Papag. 

 ii. p. 190 (1868); Russ, Journ. f. Om. 1869, p. 415, 1870, p. 30; 

 G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 137, n. 7990 (1870) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 

 1873, pp. 466, 634, 1874, p. 587 ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, 

 Revue, p. 39 (1874) ; Gulliv. P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 489 ; Gieb. Thes. 

 Om. iii. p. 217 (partim) (1877) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 ii. p. 194, n. 481 (1878) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 169 ; Schmidt, 

 P. Z. S. 1880, p. 310 ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. vi. f. 7 (1878-83) ; 

 id. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 120 {Consp. Psitt. p. 56); Salvin, Cat. 

 B. Strickl. Coll. p. 461 (1822) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 

 p. 331 (1883) ; Legge, Pr. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 238 ; Ramsay, 

 Tab. List, p. 16, n. 497 (1888) ; North, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) 

 iii. p. 1777 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 77 (1889) ; North, Descr. 

 Cat. Nests # Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 258 (1889) ; Ramsay, Cat. 

 Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 61 (part.) (1891). 

 Platycercus ornnicolor, Less. Compl. de Buff. ix. p. 220 (1837) ; on. cit. 

 2nd ed. p. 611 (1838). 



Adult. Head, sides of neck, breast, and under tail-coverts scarlet ; 

 cheeks white ; nape yellow ; feathers of the back black, edged all 

 round with greenish yellow ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and lower 

 parts of the belly yellowish green ; lower breast yellow, with a 

 scarlet band along the middle ; a patch on the wing-coverts black ; 

 anterior wing-coverts, from the bend of the wing downwards, and 

 under wing-coverts viplet-blue ; the inner median and greater upper 

 wing-coverts dark green or blackish, edged with greenish yellow ; 

 primaries brown ; the base of the outer webs of the primaries, their 

 coverts, and the anterior secondaries deep blue ; the inner secondaries 

 greenish black, edged on the outer web with yellow-green ; two 

 central tail-feathers green, passing into bluish at the tip ; the 

 remainder of the tail-feathers green at the base, then dark blue 

 passing into light blue, and tipped with white : " bill horn-colour ; 

 feet brown; irides brown" (Gould). Total length 13'5 inches, 

 wing 6-5 to 6-1, tail 6-5, bill 0-7. 



Young. Less brightly coloured, with the yellow colour more 

 greenish, and with the nape greenish instead of yellow. 



Hub. S.E. Australia, from Wide Bay district to Victoria, and 

 also Tasmania. 



a. Ad. st. Australia. Purchased. 



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

 d, e. Imm. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Australia. J. E. W. Riskton, 



Esq. [P.]. 



