48. PSKPHOxrs. 565 



Young. Forehead yellowish grey, stained with red ; sides of the 

 head and neck and breast greyish, stained with greenish ; flanks, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale blue, middle of the abdomen 

 stained with red ; wing-coverts greyish, stained with red ; rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail as in the adult bird ; quills with a white 

 oblique band on the under surface. 



Hab. Eastern Australia, from Port Denison to New South Wales. 



a. Ad. st. New South Wales. Purchased. 



b. Ad. st. Australia, Sir T. Mitchell [P.], 

 c,d, e. <$ ad. et Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.j. 



imm. sk. 

 /, g, h. Ad. et ]•:. Australia (J. T. Cockerel/). Salvin-Godman Col). 



imm. sk. 

 i. Ad. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



/.-, /. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



m. Ad. st, var. Australia. A. Wiener, Esq. [P.]. 



n. Sternum, ivc. 



4. Psephotus chrysopterygius. 



Psephotus chrysopterygius, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 220 : id. Ann. fy 



Mag. X. II (3) i. p. 150 (1858); id. Journ. f. Orn. 1858, p. 233; 



id. B. Austr., Suppl. pi. 04 (pt. iii., 1850) ; id. Handh. B. Austr. 



ii. p. 65 (1865); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 137, n. 7005 (1870); 



Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 194, n. 480 (1878); id. Tab. 



List, p. 17, n. 503 (1888); id. Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 71 



(1891). 

 Platvcercus chrysoptervsrius, G. It. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 6 



(1850); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 216 (1877); Sclimc. Vogelbild. 



t. xxiii. f. 6 (1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 116 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 52). 

 Platycercus chrysopterygius, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 224 (1868). 



Adult male. Forehead pale yellow ; centre of the crown black ; 

 sides of the head, neck, throat, breast, upper part of the abdomen, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts turquoise-blue, tiaged with green on 

 the cheeks and upper tail-coverts ; round the eye a wash of yellow ; 

 back of the neck, back, scapulars, inner wing-coverts, and inner 

 secondaries light greyish brown ; a large patch on the anterior 

 smaller and median wing-coverts yellow : greater wing-coverts and 

 quills black, edged with blue ; under wing-coverts deep blue ; middle 

 of the abdomen and under tail-coverts light scarlet, each feather 

 margined with whitish ; two central tail-feathers olive-green at the 

 base, passing into deep blue towards the extremity, and tipped with 

 black ; the remaining tail-feathers light bluish green, crossed by an 

 irregular oblique band of black ; each of them has a stain of bluish 

 green on the outer wen near the tip, and the tip white : " irides 

 brown; bill and nostrils bluish horn-colour; feet mealy grey" 

 (Gould). Total length about 9-5 inches, wing 4-3, tail 5-6, bill 0*6, 

 tarsus 0"55. 



Another specimen marked fimale looks very much like the male ; 

 it is moulting, and sIioavs many feathers of the back olive, remains 

 of the previous stage, and the yellow patch on the shoulders partly 

 greenish. 



