1 iO PI.ATVCEKCiyiE. 



r]uestion about the distinctness of this beautiful addition to the AustraHan avi-fauna, but I 

 thouf^ht it best to send the specimen to Count Salvadori,our supreme authority on the Psittacid.e, 

 who has favoured me with tiie following remarks; — ' I'lntycciciis (I should say Barmtidiin) 

 macgiUivvayi is a perfectly good species. L'nfortunately 1 do not possess the ' N'ictorian 

 Naturalist ' containing the original description, but from the specimen inspected it is quite 

 obvious that, although allied to IS. haniardi, B. macgiUivvayi 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. 

 Beside B. macgiUivvayi, there is another addition to be made to the species described in the 

 Catalogue — B. nccidentali^. North, ' Records Austr. Mus.,' \'ol. II., p. 83(1893), allied to B. 

 zonarius.' " 



Psephotus haematorrhous. 



REri-VKNI'Eli PARRAKEET. 



Phitijcrcns h(fmfitn(/i(sti'r i'pa.rt), Gould, Proc. Zool. 80c., 1837, p. 89. 

 Pwphotuti hri;,iatogaster, Gould, Eds. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. 33 (1848). 



Pseplio/ns /i(e»iatorr/ious, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. G"2 (1865) ; Sahad., Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 5G1 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. Bds., Vol. II., p. 38 (1900). 

 Adult m.alr. — frPiiera/ colour aborc, inclmliity tlic grcnti'r jinrtioii nf tlir In-ml, t/ic furf.ncck and 

 clte/<t pale broirn, llic upper tail-coverts ivasheil loith dlire-i/ellaw ; lesser upper iciny-cucerts venliter- 

 green, those on the rxlreme edge of the iring rieJi blue .- outer mediioc and greater iidng-core.rts blue, 

 the inner medinn and r/renter nnng-corerts reddis/i-c/ieslnul , hecomiug paler 011 the onter webs of tlie 

 inner secondaries, n-hieh are margim d ivitli olive ; primary coverts, jirniinries and remainder o/' 

 secondaries deep bin, on thiir outer ii-eb.s, bliiekis/t on their inner n-ebs, ivith a yreijisii ivnsli on tlie 

 apical portion of t/ie outer webs of the primaries : ceiilral jiair of tailfeathers elidl olive-green, the 

 apical lialf of tJieir outer icebs and tips dull blue : tlie remainibr ilark bl n.e at tin base, a-li.ite on th'ir 

 apical portion, all but the lateral feathers irith a pale bluish ivash <in their onter webs extending nearlij 

 to their tips ; lower portion of the breast and sides of the abdomen yellow ; centre of the lower breast, 

 abfbjnien, the VI )it anil under tail-coverts crimson-rid : bill >rhitis/i-horn co/onr, bhiis/i at the base : 

 legs and feet dark jleshy-grei/ : iris brmrn. Total Imgth in the flesh 1 ' in.ehes, iving 5 ■!, tail 0:], 

 bill 0'7, tarsus 0'7. 



Adult FKM.\LE — Similar in plumage to the ninje, but smaller and with less crimson-red on the 

 centre of the lower breast, abdomen ami under tail-coverts. 



Disfribntion — Southern Queensland, New South Wales. 



~Fa) IKE Gould I met with the " Blue-bonnett " on the Namoi River, in New South Wales, and 

 J — X in similar described country, a dry cracked loamy soil, covered with seeding herbage and 

 grasses, between that river and the Nundewar Range, and assimilating so closely in colour to 

 the birds, that usually one's attention was first attracted to them when they rose and settled on 

 a ring-barked dead tree. This was in November, 1896, and again in the same month of the 

 following year I met with this species about eighty miles further north on the Gwydir River. 



I can testify to the individual variation in both this and the following species, as already 

 referred to by Dr. E. P. Ramsay" and Count Salvadori.f On the Castlereagh River, sixteen 



* Austr. Mus Cat., Psittaci, p 70 (ifigi). ^ Cat. Bds, Brit. Mus., Vol. XX.. p.p. 5''2-3 (iSgi). 



