602 MR. RAMSAY ON BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. [ Nov. 16, 
168. PrisrEs ERYTHROPTERUS. 
I found this species dispersed over the whole region from the 
Clarence river to the Cardwell district. Specimens of this species 
are smaller in size the further north they are found, until it reaches 
Cooktown and the Cape-York district, where they are the smallest, 
and the crimson on the shoulders of a deeper tint. 
169. PLATYCERCUS CYANOGENYS. 
Only once met with; this species appears to be very rare in the 
Cardwell district, although I have seen several specimens from Cape 
York. 
I found Parrots of all kinds very scarce, and especially the 
ground-Parrakeets and their allies. I did not meet with a single 
species of Huphema or Psephotus. 
170. TricHOGLOSSUS MULTICOLOR. 
171. GLOSSOPSITTA PUSILLA. 
172. GLOSSOPSITTA AUSTRALIS. 
All three species very plentiful, and frequently met with feeding 
in the flowering Lucalypti. 
I searched diligently for 7’. rubritorquis, but found no trace of it. 
173. CycLopsrrrA MACLEAYANA, Ramsay, Sydney Morning He- 
rald Newspaper, Noy. 15, 1874. 
This interesting and prettily marked species was discovered first 
by Mr. K. Broadbent near Cardwell, and found feeding on the 
native figs with which the scrubs abound. The specimens in the 
Dobroyde Collection are the only fully adult specimens obtained. 
I believe I forwarded to the Society a full description of the adults, 
male and female, and the young, several months ago*. Jn case I 
should not have done so, I enclose a slip from the ‘Sydney Morning 
Herald,’ in which a portion of my notes appeared about the same time. 
Male. Upper surface bright grass-green ; forehead crimson bounded 
by a band of bright verditer blue, which extends through the lores, 
and, narrowing round the eye, reaches to the ear-coverts ; from the 
base of the lower mandible, extending over the ear-coverts, an 
oblong patch of crimson, bounded below by a patch of deep blue; 
outer webs of primaries and secondaries deep blue; inner webs 
blackish brown ; shoulders tinged with blue, under surface of the 
shoulders bright green, having a narrow band of yellow, formed by 
a series of spots of the larger under wing-coverts; across the centre 
of the wing a larger band of yellow, formed by a series of elongated 
marks on all but the second ard third primaries; a longitudinal 
spot of red on the inner webs of the third and fourth tertiaries 
nearest the body; the remainder of the wings on the under surface 
blackish brown; whole of the under surface of the body bright 
* [This description was never received. The species appears to be the same 
as C. maccoy?, Gould, P, Z, 8, 1875, p. 314, and Birds of New Guinea, pt. i. pl. 
10.—P, L. 8.] 
