48. P6EPH0TT/S. 567 



tail-covcrts yellow, stained with red ; smaller upper wing-coverts 

 near the bend of the wing bright blue ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 base of the outer web of the primaries, and under wing-coverts deep 

 blue ; apical half of the outer web of the primaries bluish grey ; the 

 anterior greater wing-coverts deep blue, the median lighter, the 

 inner ones green, like the inner secondaries ; middle tail-feathers 

 blue, black at the tip, brown-green at the base; the outer ones 

 green at the base, passing into lighter green and then into very pah- 

 blue towards their tips, which are white ; all the tail-feathers, except 

 the four middle ones, crossed by a band of black near the base: 

 "bill horny brown; legs wood-brown" (Gould). Total length 

 about 12 inches, wing 5-5, tail G-7, bill 0-58, tarsus 058. 



Female. " The female is attired in a similar stvle of colours, but is 

 much less brilliant, has the throat and breast yellowish brown, and 

 only an indication of the bands on the occiput and win»-coverts " 

 {Gould). 



Young. Much duller than the adult bird, the forehead greenish 

 yellow ; back and scapulars with a greyish tinge ; occipital spot pale 

 orange-brown, like the spot on the upper tail-coverts and the band 

 on the median wing-coverts ; middle of the abdomen yellow ; under 

 tail-coverts pale green. 



Hab. South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and the 

 Interior. 



a > Ad - sk - Linnean Society[P.]. 



, , , J _ J ,. (Type of species.)" 



b. cJ ad. si S. Australia. Sir G. Grey rp.l 



c. 3 ad. sk. River Murray, S. Australia. Sir G. Grev TP T 

 d-h. Ad. sk. Australia. 



»■ Juv ' sk - Gregory Exped. [C.]. 



6. Psephotus haematonotus. 



Platycercus hseiuatouotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 151 • Wiegm 



Archiv f. Naturg. 1839, p. 395; Hartl. Erst. Nachtr. i'erz p IS 



(1846) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 14 (1846); id. List Psitt. 



Brit. Mm. p. 6 (1859); Homeyer, Journ. f. Orn. 1859 p 360- 



Finsch, Papaij. ii. p. 219 (1868) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. hi. p. 217 (1877) • 



Rchmo. Voyelbild. t. xxiii. f. 1 (1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn 1881* 



p. 115 (Consp. Psitt. p. 51). 



Nanodea hsematonotis [sic), Mitch. Austr. Exped. i. p. xviii (1838) 



Psephotus haematonotus, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 86 (pt. xix. 1845) • 



Start, Exped, Centr. Austr. ii. App. p. 39 (1849); Blyth, Cat B 



Mus. A. S. B. p. 8 (1849) ; Rchnb. Neuentd. Vbg. X '//.,//. ,, 44 i > 



(1850) ; Bp. Rev. et Mac/, de Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 192; Souanei 



Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 213; Bp. Naumannia. 1858 Congo, 



Psitt. n. 196; Selat. V. Z. s. L862, p. 186; Pouch. Ned. Tijdschr 



Dierk. i. Berigt. p. x (1868) ; Gould, Hand/,. B. Austr. ii p 69 



(1865); Russ, Journ. f. Orn. 1869, p. 287, 1870, p. 30: Dracfienf. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1670, p. 149 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list. ii. p. 187 „ 7997 



(1S70) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S. JV. ii. p. ]<M, n 492 l ls78) ■ 



Forbes, P.Z. S. 1879, pp. 169, 357: Salvin, Cot. B. Strick! Coif 



p. 402 (1882): Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 334 (1883): Broadb. 



