566 PS1TXACLDJ2. 



Young female*. Forehead pale yellow, nearly white; crown 

 brown ; upper surface and wing-coverts pale olive, with glaucous 

 edges to the feathers ; throat and breast pale yellowish green, with 

 a glaucous tinge; the rump and upper tail-coverts and the tail 

 similar to the same parts in the adult bird, but not so bright ; the 

 lower part of the abdomen whitish, with faint stains of scarlet ; 

 under tail-coverts pale bluish. 



Hob. North Australia, from Port Darwin to Gulf of Carpen- 

 taria. 



a, b, c. 6 ad., $ (?) Lat. 18° B, long. 141° to 1-42° E. J. R. Elsey [T.]. 

 imm., and juv. sk. (Types of species.) 



5. Psephotus multicolor. 



Psittacus multicolor, Temm. (nee Gm.) MS. (1819); Broun apud 

 Kvhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 55 (1820); Temm. Trans. Linn, Soc. xiii. 

 p. 119(1821). 

 Varied Parrot, Lath. Gen, Hist. ii. p. 182 (1822). 

 Platycercus multicolor, Vig. 8f Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 283 

 (1826) : Steph. Gen. Zool, xiv. 2, p. 124 (1826) ; Vie/. Zool. Journ. 

 iii. p. 245 (1827) ; Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 528 (1832) ; Mitch. 

 Austr. Ezped. i. p. xviii (1838) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, 

 n. 17 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 6 (1859) ; Finsch, 

 Papag. ii. p. 222 (1868) ; Puss, Journ. f. Orn. 1871, p. 236 ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 218 (1877) ; Bchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxiii. f. 8 (1878- 

 83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 115 (Cojixp. Psitt. p. 51). 

 Psephotus multicolor, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 35 (pt. xviii., 1847) ; 

 Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 2 (1850) ; Pchnb. Neuentd. Vbg. N. Roll. 

 n. 444 (1850) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 190 ; 



Souance, Rev. et Maq. de Zool. 1856, p. 213 ; Bp. Namnannia, 



1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 194 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 433, I860, 



p. 371, 1861, p. 234, 1862. p. 185 ; Parker, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 516 ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 58 (1865); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, 



p. 627 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 137, n. 7994 (1870) ; Diggl. Syn. 



B. Austr. ii. p. 79, pi. 79. f. 2(1877); Ramsay, I'r. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. ii. p. 194, n. 492 (1878) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 



p 334(1883); Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 17, n. 505(1888); Tristr. 



Cat. Coll. B. p. 77 (1889) ; North, Descr. Cat. Nests $ Eggs Austr. 



Birds, f. 261 (1889); Clark, Pr. Roy. Soc. South Austr. (F. N. 



Sect.) 1889, p. 38; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 73 



(1891). 

 Euphema multicolor, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 100 (1864) ; id. 



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



Adult male. Bluish green, back and scapulars darker ; forehead 

 and a band on the median wing-coverts yellow ; occiput reddish 

 chestnut ; lower back and rump with three cross bars, two blackish 

 with the feathers edged with blue, and one light bluish between 

 the two black ; upper tail-coverts bluish green, with a reddish-orange 

 spot in the middle ; abdomen orange-red in the middle, with the 

 hidden part of the feathers yellow ; thighs similarly coloured ; under 



* 1 strongly suspect that the bird described and figured by Gould as young is 

 nn adult female, and the supposed female to be a moulting male. 



