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gradually passing into white at the tip ; hill light horn- 

 colour ; feet nearly brown. 



Total length 12 inches; wing 5; tail 7 J; tarsi 



Sp. 428. PSEPHOTUS CHRYSOPTERYGIUS, Gould. 



Golden-shouldered Parrakeet. 



Psephotiis chrysopteryyiuSy Gould in Proc. of Zool, Soc, part xxv. 

 p. 220. 



Psephotus chrysopterygius, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supple- 

 ment, pi. 



One of the greatest pleasures enjoyed by the late celebrated 

 botanist Robert Brown, during the last thirty years of his life, 

 was now and then to show me the drawing of a Parrakeet 

 made by one of the brothers Bauer, from a specimen pro- 

 cm'ed somewhere on the north coast of Australia, but of 

 which no specimen was preserved at the time, and none had 

 been sent to England, until several were brought home 

 by Mr. Elsey, a year or two prior to Mr. Brown's death. 

 On comparing these with the drawing made at least forty 

 years before, no doubt remained on my mind as to its 

 having been made from an example of this species. This, 

 then, is one of the novelties for which we are indebted to the 

 explorations of A. C. Gregory, Esq. ; and I trust it may not 

 be the last I shall have to characterize through the re- 

 searches of this intrepid traveller. Mr. Elsey, who, as is well 

 known, accompanied the expedition to the Victoria River, 

 obtained three examples — a male, a female, and a young bird 

 — all of which are now in our national collection. In the 

 notes accompanying the specimens, Mr. Elsey states that they 

 were procured on the 14th of September, 1856, in lat. 18° S. 

 and long. 141° 33' E., and that their crops contained some 

 monocotyledonous seeds. 



This bird, which is in every respect a true Pse2)Jiotns, is 

 allied both to the P.pidcherrimus and P. multicolor, but differs 



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