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inner webs ; the five lateral feathers on each side margined on 

 their inner webs and tipped with rosy red, which is broadest 

 and most conspicuous on the two outer feathers; bill scarlet; 

 feet ash-grey. 



Genus APROSMICTUS, Gould. 



One species only of this form inhabits Austraha ; others 

 are found in New Guinea and the neighbouring islands. 

 They are distinguished from the Plati/cerci by the possession 

 of a well-developed os fuTcatorimn, a bone which is entirely 

 wanting in the members of that genus ; in their habits the 

 Aprosmicti are mainly arboreal, and in their disposition 

 morose and sullen. 



Sp. 409. APROSMICTUS SCAPULATUS. 



King Lout. 



Psittacus scapulatus, Bechst., Kuhl, Nova Acta, p. 56. 



Psittacus tabuensis, var. /3, Lath. Ind. Orn., p. 88. 



La Grande Perruche a collier et croupion bleu, Le Vaill. Hist, dcs 



Pen*., pis. 55 and 56. 

 Tabuan Parrot, White's Journ., pi. in p. 168, male, and p. 169, female. 

 Platycercus scapulatus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 284. 

 Psittacus cyanopygius, Vieill., 2nde edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 



torn. XXV. p. 339. 

 Scarlet and Green Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 116. 

 Platycercus scapularis, Swains. Zool. 111., 2nd Ser. pi. 26. 

 Aprosmictus scapulatus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part x. p. 112. 

 Wellat, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Aprosmictus scapulatus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., voL v. 

 pL 17. 



This very showy and noble species appears to be extremely 

 local in its habitat ; I have not seen it from any other portion 

 of Australia than New South Wales, in which country it 

 appears to be almost exclusively confined to the brushes, par- 



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