610 On Two lately -described Australian Birds. 



by him to us. It is marked " S . Irides hazel; bill liorn- 

 coloured ; legs and feet purplish." 



There is a nearly similar specimen in the British Museum, 

 also a male, obtained by Mr. Carter at the same locality in 

 November 1900. The lores are slightly reddish, and the 

 white superciliary stripe rather more distinct. 



2. Platycercus macgillivrayi. (Plate XV.) 



Platycercus macgillivrayi North, Vict. Nat. xvii. p. 91 

 (Sept. 1900) ; id. op. cit. p. 113. 



There can be no question about the distinctness of this 

 beautiful addition to the Australian avifauna, but I thought 

 it best to send the specimen to Count Salvadori, our 

 supreme authority on the Psittacidse, who has favoured me 

 with the following remarks : — 



" Platycercus (I should say Barnardius) macgillivrayi is a 

 perfectly good species. Unfortunately I do not possess the 

 ' Victorian Naturalist ' containing the original description, 

 but from the specimen inspected it is quite obvious that, 

 although allied to B. barnardi, B. macgitlivrayi has good 

 claims to stand as distinct. The principal characters are as 

 follows :— -There is no red frontal band, the forehead is more 

 bluish green, with a slight touch of yellow, the back is lighter 

 green, the upper tail-coverts have a yellowish tinge, the 

 breast is distinctly yellowish green, and the abdomen 

 extensively yellow, 



" Besides B. macgillivrayi, there is another addition to be 

 made to the species described in the Catalogue — B. occi- 

 dentalis North, Records Austr. Mus. ii. p. 83 (1893), allied 

 to B. zonarius." 



This fine species was discovered by Mr. Alexander Sykes 

 Macgillivray in the Cloncurry district of Northern Queens- 

 land, and was described by Mr. North in the ' Victorian 

 Naturalist,^ as above quoted. It is said to be common about 

 Cloncurry, which lies inland south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 and to extend to the shores of the Gulf of Normanton. 



The specimen figured, kindly forwarded to me by Mr. 

 North, is believed by him to be a male. It was procured at 

 Cloncurry in 1901. 



