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P.snTACID.H. 



Ptistes erythropterus. 



RED-WIXOED LUKV. 

 I'^itlarns fri/tliroptn-Hi', Ginel., Syst. Nat., Vol. I, p. ;j4;; (ITSS). 

 Aprnsiiiicliis n-yfliroplerns, Goulfl, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. IS (1.^4^). 



riul^s <'rylhr<:ptrrH^,(.iovi\A, Haiull.k. Bds. Austr., Vol. 11., p. -u (ISO.-)); Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., Vol. XX., p. 481 (1891); Sliarpe, Hand-1. Bds., Vol. 11., p. :33 (lOOd) ; Salvad , Ibis, 

 1907, p, 141. 

 Ptistes cocri,n-n/,f,'rH>!, Gould, Handhk. Bds. Austr., Vol. Tl., p. .".O (18(;.-i), 



Adult male. — C-o/rn nfthe hi'nd fiinl napr verditrr-i/r'-eu. : i uli'i-'sryH/ar region iilnch : Imrer 

 l„i,-k and rump (lee.ji blur, the Inini- portion hi'.uliiie-hlw.- upper lail-e.orerls ipVo'rish-ijreen ■ upper 

 icimi-ivrerts ric/i criinsun ri d ; (luUlg tilack, the prinnories li(iciiiij tlo ir outer u-ehs ami apical portom 

 dark ip-eeu, awl tin secondaries exlervidly edyeil with dark green, sum' of tlo m tinyd irith red loar the 

 tip : tail-feathers dark green lipped /rith pale yejloirish-green, all but the ,-, nlral pair marginrd tritli 

 dark broirn on th. ir inner ir.bs . forehead and side^^ of thr load light gr.r,, ,- all the nnder snrfaee, 

 the Hudir a-iwi and nnder tail-oo-erts yelloirish-greea : bill orange-red, pahr at the tip : legs and Jeet 

 broirn : iris r.il. Total length in the flesh 1.2-0 ineliei, wing <"■',, tail '>S\ bdl n / tarsus (1-7. 



Adult fkmalh. — (leneral colour ((bore dull green : ramp blue, upper tad-eoverts yelloinsh-green : 

 U'i/i'/s dnJl //rem, the outer series of the inediiiii upper iving-corrrts nil, suine of theni externally 

 margined n:ilh dull grem: tail-feathers green tipped with yrUou-ish-greeu, the lateral ones edged /nth 

 ros/ppink o// their i/mer //'rbs : all the under surface and tmder tail-cocerls of a sliyhtly /ml/-r yellowish- 

 gre/rn thim i// the male. 



Distribution — Soith-weslevn Australia, Northern Territory of South Australia, (Uieensland, 

 New South Wales. 



"pTT) ELEG.\TING, as Count Salvadori has previously done in the Catalogue of iiirds in the 

 J_ S_ British Museum, the Ptistis civcincoffcnis, Gould, to the position of a synonym of the 

 present species, the ran.i^e of the Ked-winged Lory e.xtends over the entire northern portion of the 

 Australian Continent and throughout Queensland, and the inland portions of the northern half 

 of New South Wales. Here again is an instance of a species found in the coastal districts of 

 North-western .Australia, the Northern Territory of South Australia and (Jueensland, but is only 

 found inland in New South Wales, and never on the coast. Apparently the New England and 

 the Blue Mountain Ranges form an effectual barrier in this State to many species which elsewhere 

 are found also in the coastal districts. Gould remarks that "it is rather thinly dispersed among 

 the trees skirting the rivers which intersect the Liverpool Plains, but from there towards the 

 interior it increases in number." I first met with this species in New South Wales in 

 November, iSgfi, on the Namoi River, and saw seven young birds in Narrabri taken from 

 nesting-places in tree trunks tweh'e miles lower down the ri\er. From here it occurs north to 

 the (Queensland border, and west to the Macquarie, Bogan and Castlereagh Rivers. In 

 Queensland it is found on the Darling Downs, and there are specimens in the .Australian Museum 

 Collection procured by the late Mr. J. Rainbird at I'ort Denison in i8/i(,, and by Mr. George 

 Masters, at Gayndah, Burnett River, in August, 1870. One of the tinest series of skins I have 

 e.xamined was procured by Mr. H. G. Barnard, on the Lower Dawson River, in October, 190S. 

 Mr. A. F. Smith has noted numbers of them during a drought at Ingham, at the mouth of the 

 Herbert River; and Dr. W. Macgillivray also' records it from the Cloncuiry District. In his 

 Handbook Gould states :— '• If ornithologists will compare the Crimson-winged Lories of Port 

 • Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II.. p. 3S-3g (1S65). 



