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broad yellow band, more or less tinged with orange ; primaries, 

 primary-coverts, and feathers of the spurious wing black, with the 

 outer webs deep blue ; the primaries have the apical half of the 

 outer webs grey ; smaller wing-covorts deep blue ; greater wing- 

 coverts and inner secondaries green ; under wing-coverts blue, with 

 verdigris edges ; two central tail-feathers deep green, passing into 

 deep blue at the base ; the lateral feathers deep blue at the base, 

 gradually fading into bluish white at the tip : " bill horn-colour; 

 feet brown" {Gould). Total length 14 inches, wing 65, tail 7*2, 

 bill O'S, tarsus 0-8. 



Female. Like the male, only smaller and duller ; the back less 

 bluish and more greenish. 



Young. Much duller than the adult bird and with the red on the 

 forehead much paler. 



Hob. South Australia, New South Wales, and the Interior. 



a. Ad. sk. Linnean Society [P.". 



(Type of species. ) 



*, c. 2 ad. et ad. sk. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



d, e,f. Ad. sk. S. Australia. Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



y, h. rf $ ad. sk. Australia, March, May. Sir T. Mitchell [P.J. 



i-o. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



/), q, r. Ad. sk. Australia (J. T. Cocker ell). Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



s, t. Ad. sk. Flinder's Range, S. Aus- Hume Coll. 



tralia, Oct. 



u, v. Skeletons. Australia. Zoological Soc. Coll. 



2. Barnardius sernitorquatus. 



Psittacus semitorquatus, Quoi/ et Claim. Voy.Astrol., Zool. i. p. 237, 

 pi. 23 (1830) ; Thienem. FortpjL d.ges. Vug. p. 73 (1846). 



Platycercus baueri, Lear (7iec Tetnm.), Parr. pi. 17 (1832). 



Conurus caeruleo-barbatus, Bourj. Perr. pi. 40 (1837-38). 



Platycercus semitorquatus, Less. Cmnpl. de Buff, ix. p. 221 (1837), 

 2nd ed. p. 611 (183*) ; Gould, B. Aitstr. v. pi. 19 (pt. xi., 1843) ; 

 G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 10 (184G) ; Bchnh. Neuentd. Vb / 

 N. Hall. n. 180 (I860) ; Bli/th, Cat. B. Mas. A. & B. v . 8 (1849) ; 

 G. B. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mvs. p. 8 (1859) ; Schkg. Mus. P.-ll. 

 Psittaci, p. 93 (1864) ; Gould, llandb. B. Ausfr. ii. p. 42 (1865) ; 

 Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 209 (1868); Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psitt. ici, 

 Rente, p. 39 (1874) ; Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 219 (1877) ; Ramsay, 

 Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. If. ii. p. 193, n. 472 (1878) ; Bchmc.Voqelbiid. 

 t. iii. f. 2 (1878-83); id. Journ.f. Om. 1881, p. 124 (Consp. Psitt. 

 p. 60); Sclat. List Vert. An. Mh ed. p. 332 (1^3); Ramsay, 

 Tab. List, p. 16, n. 488 (1888) ; Xorth, Descr. Cat. Nests § Ei/gs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 257 (1889) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaa, 

 p. 46 (1891). 



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

 n. 170 ; Souancc, Rev. et Mug. de Zool. 1856, p. 211 ; Bp. Nau- 

 mannia, 1866, Consp. Psitt. a. 172: Finsch, Ned. TijdscJtr.Dierk.i. 

 Berigt. p. xi (1863); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 138, n.8003 (1870). 



Adult. Green ; head brown-black, a red band on the forehead ; 

 cheek-feathers and ear-coverts tipped with deep blue ; a broad 

 yellow collar on the lower nape ; upper breast dark green with a 



