58 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



of maturity, of which colour no trace is at any time perceptible 

 in the P. jpalliceps. 



Head, sides of the neck and centre of the breast scarlet ; 

 cheeks white, faintly tinged with blue ; feathers of the back 

 and scapularies black, broadly margined with gamboge-yellow ; 

 lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts pale green ; on 

 the shoulder a patch of black ; wing-coverts pale blue ; pri- 

 maries black with the exception of the basal portion of the 

 external web, which is rich deep blue ; two central tail-feathers 

 dark green at the base, passing into deep blue on the apical 

 half of the external web and tipped with black ; the next on 

 each side is black on the internal web, green at the base of 

 the external web, blue for the remainder of its length, and 

 slightly tipped with white ; the remainder of the tail-feathers 

 are deep blue at the base of the external, and black at the base 

 of the internal web, the remaining portion of both webs being 

 pale delicate blue, passing into white at the tip ; sides of the 

 breast and the abdomen bright gamboge-yellow; vent pale 

 green in some, in others pale bluish green ; under tail- coverts 

 scarlet; irides dark brown; bill horn-colour; feet mealy brown. 



Total length 12 inches ; bill f ; wings 6 ; tail 7 ; tarsi J, 



Sp. 424. PLATYCERCUS ICTEROTIS, Wagl. 

 Yellow-cheeked Parrakeet. 



Psittacus icterotis, Tetnm. in Linn. Trans., vol, xiii. p. 120. 

 Platycercus stanleyii, Vig. in Zool, Jonrn., vol. v. p. 273. 



icterotis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. p. 530. 



icterodes, Bourj. St.-Hil. Supp. to Le Vaill. Hist. Nat, des Perr,, 



pi, 30. 

 Go'otd-un-goutd-un, Aborigines of the lowland, and 

 Moy-a-duk, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia, 

 Rose-hill of the Colonists of Swan River. 



Platycercus icterotis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. pi. 29. 

 From the little that is known of the history of this species 



