588 psittacid^:. 



Orn. i. p. 104 (1790) ; Yieill. N. D. xxv. p. 347 (1817) ; id. Enc. 

 Meth. iii. p. 1387 (1823). 



Psittacua auriceps, Kuhl, C'onsp. Psitt. p. 46 (1820). 



? Buff-crowned Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist ii. p. 196 (1822). 



Platycercus auriceps, Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 531 (1825), St/ppl. 

 pi. 2 (1825) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 123 (1826) ; Vig. Zool. 

 Journ. iii. p. 245 (1827) ; Waff I, Man. Psitt. p. 524 (1832) ; G. R. 

 Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 32 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 14 (1859); id. Ibis, 1862, p. 229; Ibis, 1862, p. 285; Peh. 

 Novara Peis., Yog. p. 97 (1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 156 ; 

 Bull. Essay N. Zeal. Orn. p. 12 (1865) : id. N. Zeal. Exli. p. 255 

 (1866); Hector, ibid. p. 266 (1866); Ball. Journ. f. Orn. 1867, 

 p. 324 : Finsch, ibid. p. 325 (part.) ; id. Papaq. ii. p. 285 

 (part.) (1868); Bull. Ens, 1869, pp. 39, 40; Finsch, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 379 ; Hutt. Ibis, 1870, p. 393 ; Bull. ibid. pp. 456, 457 ; Finsch, 

 Journ. f. 0m. 1870, p. 326 (part.) ; Potts, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst, ii 



(1873) ; Bull. B. New Zeal. p. 61, pi. — f. sup. (1873) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 215 (part.) (1877) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1882, p. 398; 



Bull. B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. i. p. 142, pl._— f. post. (1888). 

 Perruche poe-t&e', esp. 2, Less. Voy. Coq. i. 2, p. 417 (1828). 

 Platycercus novre zelandiae, Bourj. [nee auct.) Pen: pi. 37 (1837-38). 

 Euphema auriceps, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 72 (1854) ; Schleg. Mus. 



P.-B. Psittaci, p. 106 (1864) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, 



p. 42 (1874). 

 Cyanorhamphus auriceps, Bp. Rev. et Mar/, de Zool. 1854, p. 153, 



n. 189 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 213 ; Bp. Ndu- 



mannia, 1856, C'onsp. Psitt. n. 192; Ellm. Zool. 1861, p. 74C2; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140, n. 8026 (1870) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 795 : Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873. pp. 466, 634, 1*74, p. 587 ; 



Forbes, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 169; Rchnw. Vbgelbild. t. xxi. f. 4 



(1878-83) ; id, Journ. f. 0m. 1881, p. 43 (Consj). Psitt. p. 43); 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 333 (1883); Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 77 (1889). 

 ? Trichoglossus aurifrons (errore ?), Layard, His, 1863, p. 243 



(Wellington). 

 Coripliilus auriceps, Schleg. Dierent, p. 77 (1864). 



Adult male. Grass-green, paler or more suffused with yellow on the 

 underparts : frontal hand connecting the eyes crimson ; crown golden 

 yellow ; a concealed yellowish-white spot on the nape ; a crimson 

 spot on the sides of the rump ; quills dusky black, in some speci- 

 mens (young ones ?) crossed on their under surface with a baud of 

 pale yellow ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and the base of the 

 outer webs of the second to fifth primaries indigo-blue, the last 

 edged with green ; tail green above, golden olive underneath : 

 " irides pale cherry-red ; upper mandible bluish white at the base, 

 black towards the tip ; under mandible bluish black ; feet pale 

 brown " (Butter). Total length 9-6 inches, wing 4-3, tail 4-7, 

 bill 0-6, tarsus 0-66. 



Female. Like the male, only smaller. 



Hah. New Zealand, both North and South Islands, and Chatham 

 Islands., 



