550 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Crown of the head and nape hoary, slightly tinged with 

 green, and with a narrow edging of' brown to each feather ; 

 ear-coverts striated with dull orange and brown ; feathers at 

 the cheeks and front of the throat hoary, bordered with 

 brown, and washed with red at the base of the bill ; all the 

 upper surface olive-brown, each feather margined with dark 

 brown, and the feathers of the neck tipped with three semi- 

 circles of orange-brown and orange ; wings and tail olive, 

 becoming paler on the margins and tip ; under wing-coverts 

 scarlet, crossed by narrow bands of black ; primaries and 

 secondaries deeply toothed on their internal webs with light 

 salmon -colour, those of the tail with deep reddish salmon- 

 colour ; feathers of the breast olive, with a narrow crescent of 

 brown near the tip, beyond which is a second of dark reddish 

 orange ; lower pai't of the back, upper tail-coverts, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts olive, largely tipped with deep rich red, 

 within wliich, near the end, is a narrow crescent of brown ; 

 bill horny ; feet mealy brown. 



Sp. 14. NESTOR PRODUCTUS, Gould. 



Phillip Island Parrot. 



TVilson's Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 170? 



Long-billed Parrakeet. lb., p. 171 ? 



Plyctolojihus productus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part iv. p. 19. 



Nestor productus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. pi. 6. 



I regret to state that the native haunts of this fine bird 

 have been so intruded upon, and such a war of extermination 

 been carried on against it, that it is now entirely extirpated, 

 and a few stuffed specimens are the only mementos of its 

 having existed. Until lately it still lived on Philip Island 

 (an islet lying off Norfolk Island), but in this small domain 

 it is no longer to be found. 



During my stay at Sydney I had an opportunity of seeing 

 a living example in the possession of Major Anderson,^ and 



