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Board of Governors of the South Austrahan Institute, who 

 Hberally forwarded for my inspection a selection from the orni- 

 thological collection made by ]\Ir. Frederick G. Waterhouse 

 during Mr, Stuart's late Exploratory Expedition into Cen- 

 tral Australia. The locality on the label attached to the spe- 

 cimens is Howell's Ponds, Central Australia, 1G° 54' T' S. 



Forehead delicate light blue ; lower part of the cheeks, chin, 

 and throat rose-pink ; head, nape, mantle, back, and scapu- 

 laries olive-green ; lower part of the back and rump blue ; 

 shoulders and wing-coverts pale yellowish green; external webs 

 of the principal primaries dull blue ; breast and abdomen olive- 

 grey ; thighs rosy red ; upper tail-coverts olive, tinged with 

 blue ; two centre tail-feathers bluish olive green ; the two next 

 on each side olive-green on their outer webs and dark brown on 

 the inner ones ; the remaining tail-feathers tricoloured, the cen- 

 tral portion being black, the outer olive-grey, and the inner 

 deep rosy red ; bill coral-red ; feet mealy brown. 



Total length 14 inches ; bill | ; wing 7 ; tail 9 ; tarsi |. 



Sp. 408. POLYTELIS MELANURA. 



Black-tailed Parrakeet. 



PaIao7-nis melanwa, Vig. in Lear's 111. Psitt., pi. 28, male. 



anthopeplus, Vig. in lb., pi. 29, female. 



Polytelis melanura, Gould in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part IV. 

 Psittacus Sagittifer melanura et anthopeplus, Bourj. de St-Hil. Perr., 



tab. 5 et 7. 

 Platycercm melanurus, G. R. Gray, Gen of Birds, vol. ii. p, 408. 

 Ba7rabandius melanwus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. i. p. 2, Bajra 



bandius, sp. 2. 

 Wouk-un-ga, Aborigines of Western Australia. 

 Jul-u-up, Aborigines of King George's Sound. 

 Mountain Parrot, Colonists of Western Australia. 



Polytelis melanura, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 16. 

 So little is known of the habits and economy of this beau- 



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