48. PSEPHOTUS. 561 



1866, Consp. l'sitt. n. 171; 8ouaac£, Icon. Perr. pi. 47 (1857); 

 Fmsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. p. xi (1863) ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, ii. p.' 138, n. 8002 (1870). 



Very much like P. semitorquatus, but smaller, with no red frontal 

 band, or very seldom with a slight indication of it, and with the 

 lower breast and abdomen yellow : " bill horn-colour ; feet dark 

 brown " (Gould). Total length 15 inches, wing 6-9, tail 8, bill 0-83, 

 tarsus - 77. 



Hab. South Australia and the Interior. 



a. Ad. st. S. Australia. J. Fisher [P.]. 



b. Ad.sk. Linnean Society ^P.]. 



(Type of Psittacus baueri, Temm.) 



c. Ad. sk. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 d-g. Ad. et imm. S.W. Australia (J. T. Salyin-Godman Coll. 



sk. CockereU). 



h. Imm.sk. W. Australia. A. J. Campbell, Eeq.[P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



48. PSEPHOTUS. 



Type. 

 Psephotus, Gould, B. Auetr. x. pi. 36 (pt. xix., 1815) P. luematonotus. 



Range. Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen red. . 



a. Forehead aud cheeks sharply defined blue. 

 a". Median wing-coyerts red ; smaller wing- 

 coyerts yerditer-green ; under tail-coverts 



red luematorrhous, p. 561 . 



b". Median wing-coverte brown-oliye; smaller 

 wing-coyerts blue; under tail-coyerts 

 yellow (sometimes partly tinged with 



red) vanthorrhous, p. 503. 



b\ Forehead and cheeks not blue. 

 c". Rump turquoise-blue. 



a". Median wing-coyerts with a red patch ; 



frontal band red . pitlcherrinius, p. 564 



b" ' . Median wing-coverte with a yellow [p. 505. 

 patch ; frontal band pale yellow .... chrysopta-ygiws, 

 d". Rump not turquoise-blue but green, with 

 a pale green cross-band; frontal band 

 bright yellow ; a spot on the occiput and 

 another on the middle of the upper tail- 

 coyerts brown-red multicolor, p. 566. 



b. Abdomen yellow ; rump red hcematonotus. p. 567. 



1. Psephotus hseniatorrhous. 



Platycercus haimatogaater, part., Gould. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 80; Wieijm. 

 Arch. f. Notary. L839, p. 395 i partim) ; G. 11. Gr. Gen. B'. ii. 

 p. 408, u. 15 (partim) (1846) ; id. List Putt. Brit. Mm. p. 7 (1850) ; 

 Finsrh, Papa,/, ii. p. 215 (1868); Oieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 217 

 (1877). 



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