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next on each side similarly coloured, but 'with the inner web mar- 

 gined with black ; the remainder greenish blue on the outer webs, 

 black on the inner, and largely tipped with bright yellow : " irides 

 dark brown ; bill dark brown, becoming lighter on the underside ; 

 legs and feet dull brown " (Gould). Total length 8-5 inches, wing 

 4-2, tail 4, bill 0-5, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Duller than the male ; the abdominal orange spot neither 

 so extensive nor so brilliant (Gould). 



Young. "Much duller than the adult ; the blue frontal band 

 but faintly indicated ; the underparts more olive ; the orange spot 

 on the abdomen very small ; the tail more greenish ; sometimes 

 some of the quills have a white spot on the inner web. 



Hub. South-eastern Australia, from the Clarence-River District 

 to Victoria, and Tasmania ; very abundant on the Actaeon Islands. 



a, b. Ad. et imm. st. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



e. Imm. sk. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.J. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Melbourne. Gould Coll. 



5. Neophema petrophila. 



Euphema petmpliila, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 148; id. B. Austr. v. 

 pi. 40 ()»t. xiv., 1844) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 411, n. 6 (1846) ; 

 Rchnb. Neuerdd. Tog. N. Soil. n. 168 (1850) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 196 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, 

 p. 214 ; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 204 ; G. R. Gr. 

 List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 16 (1859); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psit- 

 taci, p. 104 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 76 (1865); 

 Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 170 (1868) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 141, 

 n. 8038 (1870); Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 52 (1874); Gieb. 

 Thes. Orn. ii. p. 132 (1875) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 

 p. 194, n. 497 (1878) ; Rcknw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 47 (Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 47) ; id. Yoqelbild. t. xxxiii. f. 9 (1883) ; Ramsay, Tab. 

 List, p. 17, n. 511 '(1888) ; id. Cat. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 83 

 (1891). 



Adult. Upper parts dull olive-green ; under surface the same, but 

 more yellowish, especially on the abdomen, in the centre of which 

 there is often a slight tinge of orange ; under tail-coverts yellow ; 

 frontal band deep indigo-blue, bounded before and behind with a 

 very narrow line of dull verditer-blue; lores and circle surrounding 

 the eyes dull verditer-blue ; upper wing-coverts like the back, 

 except the smaller ones near the bend of the wing and the outer 

 ones, which are verditer-blue ; the outer greater wing-coverts are 

 blue ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and outer webs of the pri- 

 maries deep blue, the latter are more or less tinged with greenish 

 towards the tip of the outer webs ; inner webs of the primaries 

 brown-black ; central tail-feathers bluish green ; the remainder 

 bluish green at the base, with the inner web brown-black, and 

 largely tipped with bright yellow : " irides very dark brown ; upper 

 mandible dark reddish brown ; sides of the under mandible light 



