562 rsiTTAciDJi. 



Psephotus hreruatogaster, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 33 (pt. xxix., 1847) ; 



Rchnb. Neuentd. Vog. N. Roll. n. 443 (1850) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. 



de Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 193 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 185(5, 



p. 213 ; Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. p. x (1863) ; G. R. 



Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 137, n. 7998 (1870) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 



pp. 466, 634, 1874, p. 587; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 169, 171, 



tigs. 3, 4 ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N S. W. ii. p. 194, n. 487 (1878); 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 333 (1883) ; North, Pr. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 986 (1887) ; Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 17, 



n. 502 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 77 (1889) ; North, Descr. 



Cat. Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 260 (1889) ; Ramsay, Cat. 



Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 69 (1891). 

 Psephotus hseniatorrhous, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 198 ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 62 (1865); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1861, 



p. 234. 

 Eupheniia hamiatogastra, Schleg. Dierent. p. 75 (1862). 

 Euphema hseniatogaster, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 102 (1864) ; 



id. op. cit., Revue, p. 41 (1874). 

 Platycercus hsernatorrhous, Rchnw. Vogdbild. Taf. xxiii. in the text 



of P. hcematogaster ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 117 {Consp. Psitt. 



p. 53). 



Adult male. Forehead and face blue ; anterior part of the ear- 

 coverts dull yellowish ; rest of the head, neck, breast, back, and 

 scapulars pale brown-grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly of 

 the same colour, but tinged with olive on the rump and olive stained 

 with reddish on the upper tail-coverts ; lower part of the breast and 

 flanks yellow ; centre of the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 crimson-red, each feather having a yellow base and narrow yellow 

 margin ; lesser wing-coverts verditer-green and blue ; a great patch 

 of a reddish chestnut on the median wing-coverts, the inner greater 

 wing-coverts, and on the outer web of the inner secondaries ; anterior 

 greater wing-covcrts, primaries, and basal portion of the outer web 

 of the primaries, and the whole outer web of the anterior secondaries 

 deep blue : under wing-coverts also deep blue ; two centre tail- 

 feathers olive-green at the base, passing into deep blue towards the 

 tip ; the remainder deep blue at the base, largely tipped with white, 

 the blue gradually blending with the white on the external web : 

 " irides dark brown ; feet mealy brown ; bill horn-colour " (Gould). 

 Total length about 12 inches, wing 5'4, tail 6*3, bill 0*65, tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. Australia, in the interior of New South Wales. 



a. Ad. st. New South Wales. Zoological Society Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



c. Var. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



d. Var. sk. Australia. A. Wiener, Esq. [P.]. 



The last two specimens have a little tinge of verditer-green on 

 the bend of the wing, some of the median wing-coverts red, and 

 the under tail-coverts in one specimen have more red on them than 

 in the other. I think they belong to P. hamatorrhous rather than to 

 P. xanthorrJious, although they are intermediate between the two. 



