Nos. 6 & 7.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 149 



Type in South Australian Institute (c/. Handbook, 

 Vol. II., p. 32). 



451. Ptistes coccineopterus Gould, Handb. Birds 

 Austr., Vol. II., p. 39, 1865 (Port Essington). 



22757 (269), & North Australia in the Gould 

 Collection is marked " P. erythropterus, small 

 variety," and is perfectly typical. 



Gould states that there is a specimen in the British 

 Museum, but fails to designate it. 



460. Platycercus Adelaide Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



(Lond.) 1840, p. 161, 1841. 



22842 (282), g, South Australia = Type. 



461. Platycercus flaveolus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



(Lond.) 1837, p. 26. 



22847 (272), <?, New South Wales=Type. 



466. Platycercus cyanogenys Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 (Lond.) 1855, p. 166 (Cape York). 



Type in the British Museum (Cat. Birds, Vol. XX., 

 p. 459). 



472. Platycercus splendidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 (Lond.) 1845, p. 105, 1846 (Darling Downs, Queens- 

 land). 



22872 (306), juv. £, New South Wales. 



This specimen is referred to in the description, but 

 the adult described was ''No. 307, #, New South 

 Wales," which cannot now be found. 



486. Platycercus hjematogaster Gould, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 89, 1838. 



22907 (254), g, New South Wales=Type. 



Gould's original description applies as well to the 

 red-vented form as to the yellow, and by figuring the 

 former he fixed the name definitely upon it. notwith- 

 standing his later remarks in his Handbook. All the 

 specimens are the red- vented bird. 



