PIjATE XXXV. 
POLYTELIS ALEXANDRA. 
PRINCESS OF WALES' PARRAKEET. Genus: Polytelis. 
THE Polytelis Alexandres is the rarest and least known bird of this family, for it is an inhabitant of the 
Tropics. The only specimen that came under Gould's notice was shot at Howell's Ponds (lat. 16 3 54 7 S.), 
a place situated somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and visited by Mr. Stuart's 
Exploring Expedition into Central Australia, when Mr. Ered. G. Waterhouse was fortunate enough to obtain 
the sole specimen known of this species. Gould gallantly named it after the lady who will, in all probability, one 
day reign over us. 
It differs very little from the best known example of this genus, Polytelis barrabandi, except that the 
crown of the head is blue, and the lower part of the cheeks rose pink instead of yellow. 
Gould describes it as having " Eorehead, delicate light blue ; lower part of the cheeks, chin and throat, 
rose pink ; head, nape, mantle, back, and scapularies, olive green ; lower part of the back and rump, blue ; 
shoulders and wing coverts, pale yellowish green; external webs of the principal primaries, dull blue; breast and 
abdomen, olive grey ; thighs, rosy red ; upper tail coverts, olive, tinged with blue ; two centre tail feathers, bluish 
olive green ; the two next on each side, olive green on their outer webs, and dark brown on the inner ones ; the 
remaining tail feathers tri-coloured - the central portion being black, the outer olive grey, and the inner deep rosy 
red ; bill, coral red ; feet, mealy brown." 
Total length, fourteen inches. 
Habitats : Howell's Ponds (Gulf of Carpentaria), and Interior. 
GENUS PSEPHOTUS. (Gould.) 
THIS family is entirely confined in its range to the mainland of Australia, and is freely dispersed over the 
whole country, though it is more particularly plentiful on the Eastern Coast and in the Interior. It 
position in the family of Parrots is between the Platycerci and Eaphemce. It seeks for food principally on 
the ground, and is therefore terrestrial rather than arboreal in its habits, and may be seen in immense flocks in 
the open country. 
PSEPHOTUS CHRYSOPTORYGIUS. (Gould.) 
GOLDEN SHOULDERED PARRAKEET. Genus: Psephotus. 
HERE we have a true Psephotus that is allied to the Psephotus pulcherrimus and Psephotus multicolor, but 
differs from them in the peculiarly rich yellow mark on the shoulder, besides affecting an entirely different 
locality among the tropical latitudes of North Queensland. 
The three specimens in the British Museum were obtained by Mr. Elsey, who accompanied the intrepid 
explorer, Mr. A. C. Gregory, in his expedition to the Victoria River in 1856. They are male, female, and a young 
bird. In their crops were found some monocotyledonous seeds. 
