214 THE BIRDS OF AUSTEALIA 



This beautiful bird is very plentiful in Victoria, parts of 

 South Australia and Kangaroo Island. In a flock of these birds 

 is usually a good proportion of females and young males, both 

 of which are mostly green, with blue cheeks and anterior wing- 

 coverts. 



The Campbell Parrakeet. 

 Platycercus nigrescens. 



North Queensland. 



The hind-neok and back are mostly black and the head dark red, 

 uniform in colour with the lower surface, otherwise very similar to the 

 P. elegans, but smaller. The feet are black and iris brown. The eggs 

 (4 to 8) measure 1.09 x .88 inch. Total length 12 inches, tail 7, wing 6.3. 



These birds have a different note to P. elegans. 



The Adelaide Rosella. 



Platycercus adelaidce. 



South Australia. 



Very similar to P. elegans, the only difference is in the red colour, 

 which is much paler and mixed with yellowish, feathers of underparts 

 have narrow yellowish edges, the black feathers of the back have broad 

 yellowish-red edges. Total length 14 inches, wing 7, tail 7.2, bill 0.7.5. 

 The eggs measure 1.12 x .92 inch. 



These birds are sometimes called the Pheasant Parrakeet. 



The Yellow Parrakeet. 



Platycercus flaveolus. 



New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 



Head, rump and upper tail-coverts pale yellowish; cheeks blue, back 

 and scapulars black, margined with pale yellowish, wings blue with black 

 patch on the cubital wing-coverts; the inner wing-coverts and inner 

 secondaries black and edged with yellowish. Total length 14 inches, wing 

 6.4, tail 7, bill 0.75, tarsus 0.7.5. Young more greenish. The eggs (3 to 5) 

 measure 1.13 x .91 inch. 



This bird is sometimes called the Swamp Lory, and is chieflj' 

 found inland, and rarely near the coast. 



The Green Parrakeet. 



Platycercus flavivcntris. 



Tasmania and Islands of Bass Strait. 



Head yellow, forehead and lores crimson, region round the eye 

 stained with red, cheeks blue, back and scapulars and wing-coverts olive- 

 black, edged with green, primary-coverts blue. Total length 14.5 inches, 

 wing 7 to 7.4, tail 7, bill 0.75. The eggs measure 1.17 x .89 inch. 



These birds are rarely found on the mainland of Australia. 



