558 PSITTACID.E. 



47. BARNARDIUS. 



„ , lype - . 

 Barnardius, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 153 .... B. bamarch. 



Range. Extends from South Australia through the Interior to 

 Western Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



A yellow collar mi the nape. 



a. Head verditer-green, with a broad brown- 



green crescent from the occiput to the 



eyes ; forehead red barnardi, p. 558. 



b. Head brown-black. 



a . Frontal band red ; abdomen green ; lar- 

 ger, wing 8 inches semitorquatus, p. 559. 



b'. No frontal red band, or very seldom a 

 slight indication of it ; abdomen pale 

 yellow-green ; smaller, wing 6 - 9 .... zonarius, p. 560. 



1. Barnardius barnardi. 



Barnard's Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 121, n. 23 (1822). 

 Psittacus barnardi, Lath. MSS. 



Platycercus barnardi, Vitj. § Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 283 

 (1826) ; Viy. Zool. Joum. hi. p. 245 (1827) ; Wai/l. Mon. Psitt. 

 p. 528 (1832) ; Lear, Parr. pi. 18 (1832) ; Bourj. Pen: pi. 32 

 (1837-38); Gould, Syn. B. Austr. pi. — . f. 1 (183-?); id. B. 

 Austr. v. pi. 21 (pt. xi., 1843) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 18 

 (1846) ; Mitch. P. Z. S. 1849, p. 64 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 

 p. 8 (1849) ; Rchnb. Neuentd. Tog. N. Soil. n. 182 (1850) ; G. R. 

 Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 8 (1859) ; Homey er, Joum. f. Orn. 

 1859, p. 360; Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 94 (1864); Gould, 

 Handb.B. Austr. ii. p. 40 (1865) ; Finsch, Papa,;, ii. p. 207 (1868) ; 

 Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 39 (1874) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 

 iii. p. 216 (1877) ; Biyyl, Syn. Austr. B. ii. p. 77, pi. 77. f. 2 

 (1877) ; Ramsai/, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 193, n. 471 (1878) ; 

 Rchnw. Voyelbild. t. xvi. f. 2 (1878-83) ; id, Joum. f. Orn. 1881, 

 p 123 (Consp. Psitt, p. 59) ; Salvin, Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 40,2 

 (1882) ; Sclat, List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 332 (1883) ; Broadb. 

 Pr. Roy. Soc. Queensl, iii. p. 30 (1886) ; North, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 

 S. W. (2 ) ii. p. 985 (1887) ; Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 16, n. 487 

 (1888) ; North, Descr. Cat. Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 256 

 (1889) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 45 (1891). 

 Platycercus bernardi, Mitch. Austr. Fxped. i. p. xviii (1838). 

 Barnardius typicus, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 168 ; 

 Souance, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 211 ; Bp. Namnannia, 

 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 170. 

 Platycercus semitorquatus (part.), G. R. Gr. List Psitt, Brit. 3Ius. 



p. 8, specim. c (1859). 

 Barnardius barnardi, Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. p. xi 

 (1863) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p.'l38, n. 8001 (1870). 



Adult male. Forehead red ; crown, cheeks, chest, abdomen, central 

 portion of "wing, and rump verditer-green ; the lower part of the 

 cheeks bluish ; a broad crescent from the occiput to the eyes greenish 

 brown ; nape-collar yellow, more or less tinged with green in the 

 middle ; back dark bluish grey : centre of the abdomen crossed by a 



