40. KEOl'HEMA. 575 



yellow, the tip bluish grey * ; legs and feet dark brownish grey " 

 (Gould). Total length 8*5 inches, wing 4*3, bill 0-5, tarsus 0*52. 



Female. Very much liko the male. 



Hah. South-western Australia. 



", o. $ 9 ad. sk. Isl. off Cape Lewin, W. Aus- Gould Coll. 



tralia. 



c, d. cJ ad. sk. Freycinet's Harbour, Shark Bay, Voyage H.M.S. 



April (F. M. Ray tier). ' Herald.' 



0. Neophema pulchella. 



Psittacus pulchellus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 96 (1792) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 470 (1811) ; Lath. Lid. Om. Suppl. p. xxi (1802) ; 

 J'ieill. N. D. xxv. p. 358 (1817) ; Kukl, Consp. Psitt. p. 50 (1820) ; 



Tetntn. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 122 (1821) ; Sw. Zool, III. ii. 



pi. 73 (1822) ; Hahn, Voy. aus As. etc. Lief, xviii. t. 5 (1822) ; 

 Viei/l. Erie. Meth. iii. p. 1393 (1823); Sw. Isis, 1829, p. 998 ; 



Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 736 (1831) ; Hahn, Om. Atl., Papaq. p. 45, 



t, 29(1835). 

 La Perruche Edwards, Levaill. Terr. pi. 68 (1801). 

 Turcoisine Parrot, Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 89 (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. ii. 



p. 185 (1822). 

 Psittacus edwardsii, Bechst. Kurze Ueb. p. 74, pi. 6. f. 1 (1811). 

 Nanodes pulchellus, Viy. §• Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 277 



(1826) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 118 (syn. emend.) (1826) : 



Sw. Zool. Ill, 2nd ser. i. pt. 5, n. 21 (1829) ; Selby, Nat. Libr., 



Parrots, p. 177 (1836). 

 Lalhamus azureus, Less. Tr. d!Om. p. 205 (1831 ). 

 Euphema pulchella, Wagl. Man. Psitt. pp. 493, 543 (partiin) (1832) ; 



Hart/. Syst. Yerz. Ges. Mus. p. 85 (1844) ; Gould, B. Austr. v. 



pi. 41 (pt'. ix., 1844); G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 41J. n. 1 (syn. 



emend.) (1846); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 8 (1849); Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 2 (syn. emend.) (1850) ; Iichnb. Neuentd. Vbg. X. Hott. 



n. 167 (1850) { Bp. Rev. et May. de Zoo/. 1854, p. 154, n. 202; 



Souance, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 213 ; Bp. Naumannia, 



1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 200; Bolle, Journ. f. Om. 1856, pp. 164, 166; 



G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit, Mus. p. 15 (1859); Finsch, Ned. 



Tijdschr. Uierk, i. Berigt. p. x (1863); Schley. Mus. P.-B. 



Psittaci, p. 103 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 77 (1865) ; 



Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 332; Finsch, Papay. ii. p. 161 (1866): 



Sc/at. P. Z. <$'. 1869, p. 627 ; Russ, Journ. f. Om. 1870, pp. 26, 31 ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140, u. 8034 (1870) ; Sund. Meth. 



nut. Ac. disp. Tent. p. 71 (1872); Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 



pp. 465, 634, 1874, p. 587 ; Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, 



p. 41 (l>7i); Gieb. TAes. Om. ii. p. 132 (1875); Ramsay, Pr. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. II'. ii. p. 194, n. 594 (1878) ; Rvhnw. Yoyelbi/d. 



t. xiv. f. 3 (1878-83); id. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 48 {Consp. 



Psitt. p. 48); Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 459 (1862); Sclat, List 



Vert. An. Mil ed. p. 327 i 1 88-3 1 : Ramsai/, Tab. List, p. 17, n. 508 



Q888); Sclat. Una, L879, p. 570; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 76 



(1889); .V</7//. D,ser. Cot. Wests a Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 263 



( 1889) ; Cox 8f Ham. Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S.' W. (2) iv. p. 417 (1889) ; 



Ramsay, Cot. Austr. Birds, Psittaci, p. 78 (1891). 



* fn the dried skins the bill appears horny brown 



