560 PSITTACID.E. 



slight bluish tinge ; lower breast, sides, and under tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish green ; middle of the abdomen bluish green ; wing-coverts 

 green, the outer ones yellowish green, the smaller wing-coverts 

 tinged with verdigris ; primary-coverts and base of the outer webs 

 of the primaries deep blue ; secondaries green ; under wing-coverts 

 blue mixed with green ; quills black underneath ; two central tail- 

 feathers deep green ; the next pair also green, passing into blue and 

 ending in bluish white at the tip ; the lateral feathers green at the 

 base, passing into blue, and then into bluish white at the tip : " irides 

 dark brown ; bill light horn-colour, becoming of a lead-colour on the 

 front of the upper mandible ; legs and feet dark brown " {Gould). 

 Total length 17 inches, wing 8, tail 8*5, bill 1*06, tarsus 092. 



Female. Smaller and duller than the male. 



Hah. Western and South-western Australia. 



a. 5 ad. sk. King George's Sound, April. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. et imm. W. Australia (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Purchased. 



3. Barnardius zonarius. 



Psittacus zonarius, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 657 (1789-1813) ; Kuhl, 

 Consp. Psitt. p. 51 (1820) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxix. p. 67 (1826); 

 Voifft, Oiiv. Uebers. p. 736 (1831) ; Thienem. Fortpfi. d. ges. Vbg. 

 p. 73 (1846). 



Psittacus viridis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 46-5 (1811). 



Psittacus baueri, Temm, MS. (1819) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 118 (1821); Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxix. p. 77 (1826). 



Psittacus melanocephalus, Brown (nee Linn.), MS.,Jide Kuhl. 



Psittacus cyanomelas, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 53 (1820) ; Desm. Diet. 

 Sc. Nat. xxxix. p. 73 (1826). 



Bauer's Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 120 (1822). 



Platvcercus baueri, Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 528 (1825) ; Vig. § Horsf. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 283 (1826) ; Stcph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 121 

 (1826) ; Vig. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 245 (1827) ; Less. Man. oVOrn. 

 ii. p. 146 (1828) ; Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 20 (pt. xi., 1843); Tliienem. 

 Fortpfi. d. ges. Vbg. p. 73 (1846) ; Rchnb. Neuentd. Vbg. N. Holl. 

 n. 181 (1850) ; Select, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 322. 



Nanodes zonarius, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 119 (1826). 



riatycercus zonarius, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 534 (1832) ; Hartl. Sgst. 

 Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 84 (1844) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 11 

 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 8 (syn. emend) (1859) ; Homeyer, 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 360 ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 94 

 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 43 (1865) ; Finsch, Papag. 

 ii p. 212 (1868) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 39 (1874) ; 

 Garrod, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 587 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 221 (1877) ; 

 Ramsay, Pi: Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. ii. p. 193, n. 473 (1878) ; Schmidt, 

 P Z. S. 1880, p. 310 ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xvi. f. 3(1878-83) ; 

 id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 124 (Consp. Psitt. p. 60) ; Sclat. List 

 Vert, An. 8th ed. p. 332 (1883) ; Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 16, n. 489 

 (1888) ; North, Pi: Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 1025 (1889) ; 

 Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 48 (1891). 

 Barnardius zonarius, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 169 ; 

 Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 211 ; Bp. Naumannia, 



