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Crown of the head, back of the neck, chest, and under tail- 

 coverts scarlet ; cheeks white ; feathers of the back black, 

 margined all round with rich yellow ; rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and lower part of the belly pale green ; centre of the belly 

 yellow ; shoulders and middle of the wing rich blue ; exter- 

 nal edges of the primaries blue, the remainder of these 

 feathers dark brown ; two middle tail-feathers green, passing 

 into bluish green at the tip, the remainder of the tail-feathers 

 dark blue at the base, passing into light blue, and tipped 

 with white ; bill horn-colour ; feet brown ; irides brown. 



Specimens from Tasmania are rather larger in size, and 

 have the markings of the upper surface of a greener 

 yellow, and altogether less brilliant than those from New 

 South Wales. 



Sp. 423. PLATYCERCUS SPLENDIDUS, Gould. 



Splendid Parrakeet. 

 Platycercus splendidus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part XIII. p. 105. 



Platycercus splendidus, Gould,Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 28. 



The lovely species here described was killed by Gilbert 

 in the newly-located district to the northward of the Darling 

 Downs in New South Wales. In beauty it even exceeds 

 the common Rose-hill Parrakeet, and is consequently one of 

 the finest species of the genus yet discovered. It differs 

 from that bird in having the centre of the breast, only, of 

 a rich scarlet, the sides being gamboge-yellow ; in the lower 

 part of the abdomen and the upper tail-coverts being verditer 

 instead of grass-green, and in the feathers of the back being 

 broadly margined with rich gamboge instead of greenish yellow. 

 In the youthful state it very much resembles the P. pailicrps, 

 from which however it differs in having the head yellow in- 

 stead of pale yellowish white, and the breast yellow instead 

 of pale blue ; the breast also has indications of the rich scarlet 



