PSITTEUTFLKS. 



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Psitteuteles chlorolepidotus. 



SCALY-BKEASTED LORIKEET, 

 r.^ittwn^ cl,l,,r,,l^pi,lutii^^ Kiihi., Consp. Psitt , p. 48 (l,s-20), 



T,-i,-h,yl,issi,^ chl„r„lejadofu>i, (^ould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V, pi. .^(ISIS); id, Haiulbk. Bcls. 

 Austr, Vol. IF,, p. ;iG (ISGfi). 



I'^itl.'ut^hschl,u;.J,,,ihjf„.s Salva.l., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mas., Vol. XX., p. 05 (1891); Sharpe, Har.d-I. 

 Bds., Vol. II,, p. (.; M'.lOU) ; 8alvad., Ibis, 100."), |i. 421. 



Adult M.\lr. — (J, -neral colour itbore and h.'hjiv ,ir.,xs-,jn',ii : vrmniof tlip h.ad lingpd unlh 

 bluf : iutPivcapular r,-c/ion, lo'rer sides .;/' ihr n.rk, lhr„„l and breast nelloa, each fralhrr haciaij a 

 tenunml crescent ,if yrass-yreea : fralhers of ihr throat and sidrs of the body occasional/,/ nashed with 

 erinison: prima rirs and secondaries blaclcish-bronm, green ,o/ ihriroater webs avd tips, e.ropit the 

 outermost primal!, "" 'i'!"'r side, aMch is narrow/,/ edged ,r,lh y,Hon; tlir under surface of all the 

 ,,ai/ls n-ilh an. o/doug s/,o/ of /,ale crimson on the median /<orto,n of the inner a-eb, increawig in 

 e.et,nt and de/,th of colour towards the innermost seenndaries, this ,,art of thr ,,nills .oi the u/.p.r 

 surface distincth/ s/.otted a ill, ,,rl/,nr: under smface of th- tai/ yellon-ish, the basal half of the lateral 

 feathers slighll,/ washed ,rxt/i crimson on their inner webs: a.ci/larirs and under n-iug-corerts bright 

 crimson: bill red; leg,, a nd feet light „lir,-gni/ : iris oronge-i/eUoir. Total length in the flesh 9:', 

 inches, iriny -r .'.'/, tail J^-.l, bill Oi;S, tarsus (l-.'i. 



Adult fkmalk. 



-Tin- sr.rts are alihe in plumage. 

 Distribution. — Queensland, New South Wales. 



Ol" the various members of the famil 

 l-oriid.r inhabitiuL; .Vustralia, th 



ly 



he 

 Scaly-breasted Lorikeet is one of the 

 most restricted in its ranse. Re;_(ardin}; '- 

 1 // J'i'ittfutflfs iicfflirtus only as a smaller northern 

 race, and not specifically distinct from the 

 present species, the neighbourhood of Cook- 

 town, in (.Uieensland, to the Hawkesbury 

 River in New South Wales, may he regarded 

 as the e.xtent of its normal range. That it 

 does occasionally occur in the northern parts 

 of the County of Cumberland there is no 

 question, but I have never seen a specimen 

 obtained in the neighbourhood of Sydney 

 for many years past, nor ha\e I e\er observed 

 at any time a skin in any collection formed 

 south of the metropolis. It chiefly frequents 

 the coastal and contiguous mountain dis- 

 tricts of these parts of Eastern Australia, 

 and is never found in the dry inland portions 

 of New South Wales. At Copmanhurst, on 

 the I'pper Clarence River, I have noted it 

 feeding in the flowering Eucalypts, specimens being obtained there in November, igoj. I have 

 also seen it as far south as Ourimbah and Gosford ; at the the former locality Dr. G. Hurst 

 found it breeding in December, and secured a set of two eggs. 



SCALY-BREASTBD LOlilKEET. 



* Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb., VII., p, 4 (1898). 



