100 BIRDS OV AUSTRALIA. 



Genus GLOSSOPSITTA, Bonaparte. 



Of this form three species inhabit Australia, and others New- 

 Guinea and the adjacent islands ; they have many habits in 

 common with the typical Triclioglossi, but they somewhat differ 

 from them in size and in the colouring of their plumage. 



Sp. 448. GLOSSOPSITTA AUSTRALIS. 



MUSK-LORIKEET. 



Psittacus australis, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 104<. 



concinnus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 87. 



Pacific Paroquet, Phil. Bot. Bay., pi. iu p. 155. 

 Psittacus pacificus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 419. 



rubrifrons, Bechst. Uebers. der Vog. Lath., S. 84. no. 99. 



Trichoglossus concinnus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 292. 

 Lathamus concinnus, Less. Traite d^Orn., p. 206. 

 Trichoglossus australis, Wagl., Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., torn. i. pp. 493 



and 549. 

 Psittacus velatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xxv. p. 373. 

 Glossopsitta australis, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 157. 

 Coolich, Aborigines of New South Wales. 

 Musk Parrakeet, Colonists. 



Trichoglossus concinnus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. 

 pi. 62. 



This species inhabits Tasmania, New South Wales and 

 South Australia, and is very generally distributed over all 

 parts of those countries. I have never heard of its occur- 

 ing either in the western or northern portions of Australia, 

 whence I infer that its habitat is restricted to the south and 

 south-eastern divisions of the continent. Like every other 

 species of Lorikeet, the present bird is always to be found 

 upon the Uucaij/pti, whose blossoms afford it a never-failing 

 supply of honey, one or other of the numerous species of that 

 tribe of trees being in flower at all seasons of the year. It is 



