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plumage ; the green of the wings and body being less brilliant, 

 and the rich hues of the crown and cheeks being entirely 

 wanting; a similar kind of plumage also characterizes the 

 male during the first year. 



The male has the forehead, cheeks and throat rich gam- 

 boge-yellow ; immediately beneath the yellow of the throat a 

 crescent of scarlet ; back of the head, all the upper and under 

 surface grass-green ; primaries, secondaries, spurious wing and 

 tail dark blue tinged with green ; thighs in some scarlet, in 

 others grass-green ; irides orange-yellow ; bill rich red ; feet 

 brown. 



The female has the face dull greenish blue ; chest dull rose- 

 colour; thighs scarlet; the remainder of the body grass- 

 green ; primaries bluish green ; central tail-feathers uniform 

 green, the remainder bluish green, with the inner webs for 

 theii" entire length fine rosy red ; irides brown ; bill pale 

 reddish orange ; feet dark brown. 



Sp. 407. POLYTELIS ALEXANDR/E, Gould. 

 The Princess of Wales' Parrakeet. 

 Polytelis alexandra, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 232. 



I feel assured that the discovery of an additional species 

 of the lovely genus Polytelis will be hailed with pleasure by 

 all ornithologists, and that they will assent to its bearing the 

 specific name of alexandrcB, in honour of that Princess who, 

 we may reasonably hope, is destined at some future time to 

 be the Queen of these realms and their dependencies, of which 

 Australia is by no means the most inconspicuous. 



The Poli/tclis alexandrcs is in every respect a typical Poly- 

 telis, having the delicate bill and elegantly striped tail charac- 

 teristic of that form. It is of the same size as P. harrahandi, 

 but differs from that species in having the crown blue and the 

 lower part of the cheeks rose-pink instead of yellow. 



For my knowledge of this new species I am indebted to the 



