TRICHOGLOSSUS CONCINNUS, Vig, and Horsf. 
Musky Parrakeet- 
Psittacus Australis, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 104. 
Psittacus concinnus, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 87. — Kuhl, Nova Acta, tom. x. p. 46. 
Perruche a landeau rouge, Le Vaill. Perr., tom. i. p. 99. pi. 48. 
Pacific Paroquet, Phill. Bot. Bay, pi. in p. 155. 
Pacific Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 87. 
Pacific Parraheet, Psittacus pacificus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 419. 
Crimson-fronted Parraheet, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 181. 
Psittacus rubrifrons, Bechst. Uebers der Vog., Lath. s. 84. no 99. 
Triclioglossus concinnus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 292. — Jard. and Selb. 111. Orn., vol. i. pi. 34. 
Lathamus concinnus. Less. Traite d’Orn., p. 206. 
Triclioglossus Australis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., tom. i. pp. 493 and 549. 
Psittacus velatus, Vieill. Nonv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xxv. p. 373, — Ib, Ency. Meth. Orn., Part III. p. 1405. 
Coolich, Aborigines of New South Wales. 
Musk Parraheet, Colonists. 
This species of Triclioglossus inhabits Van Diemen’s Land, New South Wales and South Australia, and is 
very generally distributed over all parts of those countries. I have never heard of its inhabiting either the 
western or northern portions of Australia, whence I infer that its habitat is restricted to the south and 
south-eastern divisions of the continent. Like every other species of the genus, the present bird is always 
to be found upon the Eucalypti, whose blossoms afford it a never-failing supply of honey, one or other of the 
numerous species of that tribe of trees being in flower at all seasons of the year. It is stationary in New 
South Wales, but I am not certain that it is so in the more southern country of Van Diemen’s Land, where 
it is known by the name of the Musk Parrakeet, from the peculiar odour of the bird. 
It is a noisy species, and with its screeching note keeps up a perpetual din around the trees in which 
it is located. During its search for honey it creeps among the leaves and smaller branches in the most 
extraordinary manner, hanging and clinging about them in every possible variety of position. It generally 
associates in flocks, and is so excessively tame that it is very difficult to drive it from the trees, or even 
from any particular branch. Although usually associated in flocks it appears to be mated in pairs, whicli 
at all times keep together during flight, and settle side by side when the heat of the sun prompts them 
to shelter themselves under the shade of the more redundantly leaved branches. 
The eggs, which are dirty white and two in number, are of a rounded form, one inch in length and seven- 
eighths of an inch in breadth. Those I obtained were taken from a hole in a large Eucalyptus growing on 
the Liverpool range. 
The sexes present no difference in colour, and the young assume the plumage of the adult at a very early 
age. 
Forehead and ear-coverts deep crimson-red ; at the upper part of the hack a broad patch of light chestnut- 
brown ; the remainder of the plumage grass-green ; on the flanks a spot of orange ; primaries and secondaries 
black, broadly margined on the external webs with grass-green ; base of all but the inner webs of the lateral 
tail-feathers deep red at the base, passing into yellow and tipped with grass-green ; bill blackish brown, 
passing into reddish orange at the tip ; cere and orbits olive-brown ; irides buff, surrounded by a narrow 
circle of yellow. 
I was not aware, until after the impressions of the present plate had been printed, that Dr. Latham had 
applied the specific term of Australis to this bird long before that of concinnus was conferred upon it by 
Shaw ; a fact, however, with which the accurate Wagler was acquainted, and which he has recorded in his 
valuable Monograph of the Psittacidee above quoted ; the correct appellation of the species is therefore 
Triclioglossus Australis, Wagler. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
