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The sexes may be distinguished by the smaller size of the 

 female; and by her markings being much less distinct. 



Forehead crossed by a narrow band of crimson ; head 

 blackish brown, passing into blue on the cheeks ; back of the 

 neck encircled by a band of bright yellow ; back and upper 

 surface generally deep grass-green, passing into pale green on 

 the shoulders ; primaries and spurious wing blackish brown, 

 the external webs of each feather deep blue ; two central tail 

 feathers deep grass-green, the next on each side the same, 

 passing into blue and ending in bluish white at the tip ; the 

 lateral feathers green at the base passing into blue, which gra- 

 dually fades into bluish white at the tip ; chest green ; under 

 surface light green ; irides dark brown ; bill light horn- 

 colour, becoming of a lead-colour on the front of the upper 

 mandible ; legs and feet dark brown. 



Sp. 414. PLATYCERCUS ZONARIUS. 



Banded Parrakeet. 



Psittacus zonarius, Shaw's Nat. Misc., pi. 657. 



viridis, Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 465. 



haueri, Temm. in Linn. Trans., vol, xiii. p. 118. 



cyanomelas, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Act., vol. x. p. 53. 



Bauer's Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 120. 



Platycercus baueri, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 283. 



zonarius, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., p. 538. 



Nanodes ? zonarius. Staph. Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 119. 

 Conurus ccsruleo-barbatus, Bourj. St.-Hil. Perr., tab, 40. 

 Barnardius zonarius, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153. 



Platycercus baueri, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 85. 



Although this bird is very nearly allied to the Platycercus 

 semitorquatus, it possesses several characters by which it may 

 be distinguished from that species ; in the first place it is 

 much less in size, and in the next it has a brighter and more 

 contrasted style of plumage, the green of the under surface of 

 which is relieved by a gorgeous band of bright yellow across 



