610 On Two lately -described Australian Birds. 
by him to us. It is marked '^ S - Irides hazel; bill horn- 
coloured j legs and feet purplish/" 
There is a nearly similar specimen in the British Museum, 
also a male, obtained by Mr. Carter at the same locality in 
November 1900. The lores are slightly reddish, and the 
white superciliary stripe rather more distinct. 
2. Platycercus macgillivrayi. (Plate XV.) 
Platycercus macgillivrayi North, Yict. Nat. xvii. p. 91 
(Sept 1900) ; id. op. cit. p. 113. 
There can be no question about the distinctness of this 
beautiful addition to the Australian avifauna, but I thought 
it best to send the specimen to Count Salvadori, our 
supreme authority on the Psittacidse, who has favoured me 
with the following remarks : — 
^' Platycercus (I should say Barnardius) macgillivrayi is a 
perfectly good species. Unfortunately I do not possess the 
' Victorian Naturalist ' containing the original description, 
but from the specimen inspected it is quite obvious that, 
although allied to B. barnardi, B, macgillivrayi has good 
claims to stand as distinct. The principal characters are as 
follows : — There is no red frontal band, the forehead is more 
bluish green, with a slight touch of yellow, the back is lighter 
green, the upper tail-coverts have a yellowish tinge, the 
breast is distiuctly yellowish green, and the abdomen 
extensively yellow. 
'^ Besides B. macgillivrayi, there is another addition to be 
made to the species described in the Catalogue — B. occi- 
dentalis North, Records Austr. Mus. ii. p. 83 (1893), allied 
to B. zonarius." 
This fine species was discovered by Mr. Alexander Sykes 
Macgillivray in the Cloncurry district of Northern Queens- 
land, and was described by Mr. North in the ^Victorian 
Naturalist," as above quoted. It is said to be common about 
Cloncurry, which lies inland south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 
and to extend to the shores of the Gulf of Normanton. 
The specimen figured, kindly forwarded to me by Mr. 
North, is believed by him to be a male. It was procured at 
Cloncurry in 1901. 
