572 



psittacid.t:. 



l,m. cJ ad. etad. Hummock Is., Bass Straits, Voyage H.M.S. 



sk. Jan. (F. M. Rayner). 'Herald.' 



n-g. Ad. et imm. Tasmania. R. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



sk. 



r, s, t. J ad. et Tasmania. C. G. H. Lloyd, Esq. 



($ imm. sk. [p.l. 



3. Neophema elegans. 



Nanodes elegans, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 25; Wiegm. Arch. f. 



Naturg. 1839, p. 395. 

 Euphema elegans, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 38 (pt. ii., 1841) ; G. R. 



Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 411, n. 7 (1846) ; Thienem. Fortpfi. d. yes. Tog. 



p. 74, pi. xiv. f. 6 (egg) (1846) ; Rchnb. Neuentd. Vby. N. Ho) I. 



n. 164 (1850); Bp. Bee. et May.de Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 199; 



Souance, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 214; Bp. Naumannia, 



1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 202 ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mm. p. 16 



(1859) ; Homeuer, Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 360 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 434, 1862, p. 324; Schley. Mm. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 103 



(1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 73 (1865) ; Finseh, Pa nag. 



ii. p. 165 (1868); Mull. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 279; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1869, p. 627 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 141, n. 803G (1870) ; 



Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 41 (1874) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



ii. p. 132 (1875) ; Diyyl. Syn. Austr. B. ii. p. 81, pi. 81. f. 2 (1877) ; 



Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 178, n. 495 (1878) ; Rchmv. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 46 (Consp. Psitt. p. 46) ; id. Voyelbild. 



t. xxxiii. f. 8 (1883) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 327 (1883); 



Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 17, n. 509 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Co/l.B.-p.76 



(1889) ; North, Descr. Cat. Nests # Eyys Austr. Birds, p. 263 



(1889) ; Clark, Pr. Roy. Soc. South Austr. (F. N. Sect.), 1889, 



p. 39; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 80 (1891). 

 Psittacus elegans, Thienem. Fortpji. d. yes. Vby. p. 74, pi. xiv. f. 6 



(egg) (1846). 

 Euphemia elegans, Schley. Dierent. p. 75 (1864). 



Adult male. Upper parts greenish olive ; a band of deep indigo- 

 blue across the forehead, bordered above by a narrow edging of 

 light blue, which is continued over the eye ; lores yellow ; throat, 

 chest, and sides olive-green like the upper parts, but much lighter ; 

 abdomen and under tail -coverts bright yellow ; in some specimens 

 there is an orange spot in the middle of the abdomen ; the upper 

 wing-coverts next to the scapulars olive-green, the outer ones deep 

 blue ; between the olive-green and the deep blue ones there 

 is a row of wing-coverts tinged with verdigris ; primary-coverts 

 blue-black ; the primaries black, deep blue on the outer webs ; 

 under wing-coverts deep blue ; two central tail-feathers greenish 

 blue, the blue tinge becoming more distinct towards the tip ; the next 

 pair bluish green on the outer web, black on the inner, the tip 

 yellow ; the remainder bluish at the base of the outer webs, deep 

 blue on the inner webs, yellow on the apical portion : " irides very 

 dark brown ; bill dark brown, lighter on the underside ; legs and 

 feet dull brown" (Gould). Total length 8*5 inches, wing 4-2, 

 tail 5, bill - 5, tarsus 0*5. 



Female. Like the male, but duller and smaller (Gould), and, 

 according to lleichenow, with the frontal blue band narrower. 



