564 psittaold^:. 



3. Psephotus pulcherrimus. 



Platvcercus pulcherrimus, Gould, Ann. §• Mag. N. II. xv. p. 114 

 (1845) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B., App. p. 19 (1849) ; id. List Psitt, 

 Brit. Mm. p. 6 (1859) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 226 (1868) ; Gieb. Thes. 

 Orn. iii. p. 219 (1877); Rchnw. Yogelbild. t. xxiii. f. 4 (1878-83); 

 id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 116 (Consp. Psitt. p. 52); Lumholtz, 

 Among Cannibals, p. (1889) (Ibis, 1890, p. 250). 



Psephotus pulcherrimus, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 34 (pt. xxii., 1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. A. S. B. p. 8 (1849) ; Rchnb. Neuentd. Vog. 

 N. Soil. n. 445 (1850) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 154, 

 n. 197 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 213 ; id. Nau- 

 mannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 195; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. 

 p. 67 (1865) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 201 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, 

 ii. p. 137, n. 7996 (1870) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 587 ; Diggl. 

 Syn. B. Austr. ii. p. 79, pi. 79. f. 1 (1877) ; Ramsau, Pr. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. W. ii. p. 194, n. 400 (1878) ; Schmidt, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 310 ; 

 Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 334 (1883) ; Ramsay, Tab. List, 

 p. 17, n.504(1888); North, Descr. Cat. Nests 4" Eggs Austr. 

 Birds, p. 261 (1889) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 72 

 (1891). 



Euphemia pulcherrima, Schleg. Dierent. p. 75 (1864). 



Euphema pulcherrima, Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 101 (1864) ; id. 

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



Eupherua multicolor, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 101, n. 3 

 (1864). 



Adult male. Forehead scarlet ; crown and nape brown-black ; 

 round the eyes stained with red, the feathers tipped with yellowish ; 

 sides of the head and neck bluish green ; hind neck, back, and 

 scapulars, and also the inner secondaries, greyish brown ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts turquoise-blue, the last with a greenish tinge ; 

 above the rump a black cross band ; the longer upper tail-coverts 

 tipped with black ; throat and breast green, passing into blue on 

 the lower part of the last, each feather edged with blue ; sides tur- 

 quoise-blue ; abdomen and under tail-coverts scarlet, each feather 

 edged with pale yellowish ; a large red patch on the shoulders, sur- 

 rounded above and below with brown wing-coverts ; carpal edge 

 and under wing-coverts blue ; spurious wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills brown-black ; the quills are edged on the outer web with dull 

 blue towards the base, and with greyish towards the apical half ; 

 two central tail-feathers olive-brown at the base, passing into blue 

 towards the tip, which is black ; the next pair of tail-feathers olive 

 at the .base, then pale blue in the middle, and white at the tip ; 

 the remaiuing tail-feathers similarly coloured, but with an irregular 

 black band towards the base, and beyond the black baud tinged 

 with greenish on the outer web : " irides dark brown ; bill horn- 

 colour, becoming blackish grey at the base ; legs and feet yellowish 

 brown" (Gould). Total length about 12 inches, wing 5, tail 6-6, 

 bill 0-58, tarsus 0"59. 



Female. Like the male, but " less brilliantly coloured and some- 

 what smaller" (Gould). According to Mr. Ramsay, the female is 

 like the young male. 



