THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Habitat . — The Fleurieu Peninsula, S.A., the extremity of which is familiar 
under the name of Cape Jervis. The peninsula was thus named at the 
time of Flinders’ and Baudin’s exploration of St. Vincent’s Gulf, but 
later the name was dropped until in 1911, at the request of Count Fleurieu, 
the grandson of the famous French Minister, the name was replaced on 
the South Australian maps. While we have recognised for a long time 
that a highly coloured strain of the Adelaide Rosella was frequently seen 
in the neighbourhood of Myponga and even extending as far as the 
Meadows along the same range, it has fallen to the lot of Mr. Frank E. 
Parsons, R.A.O.U., and myself, to locate the true home of these highly 
coloured birds on the occasion of a rather hurried motor-trip to Cape 
Jervis last Easter. I am indebted to Mr. Parsons both for specimens 
and help in attempting to elucidate the problem of this highly coloured 
form. We consider that their headquarters are between Normanville 
and Cape Jervis. Between Normanville and Second Valley every flock 
had its quota of highly coloured birds; they were met with in numbers 
in the Gums along the water-courses. 
If it be decided to distinguish these geographical races by trinomial 
designations, I suggest the name of Platycercus elecjans fleurieuensis or 
the Fleurieu Peninsula Rosella for this form. On the other hand, should 
it be decided to make P. adelaidce a dominant species, then this form 
under review and P. flaveolus would be subspecies of Adelaidce. 
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE FLEURIEU PENINSULAR 
ROSELLA AND COMMENTS ON THE AFFINITIES OF PLATYCERCUS 
ADELAIDE GOULD AND FLAVEOLUS GOULD. 
I have collected specimens of Platycercus elegans from the Western portion 
of Kangaroo Island and the Mt. Gambier district of South Australia, 
Victoria, N.S.W., and Southern Queensland, and have specimens from Cape 
York, Northern Queensland. In Mr. Mathews’ 1915 “ List ” the western form 
is called melanopterus North and Northern nigrescens Ramsay, both subspecies 
of the intermediate or dominant form elegans . 
A comparison of these skins shows that the rich crimson coloration, 
subject to some divergence of shade, is persistent throughout the whole series. 
Now the Fleurieu bird, in the case of the adult specimen described, at 
first glance appears to have closer affinities with P. elegans than with 
P. adelaidce, in that the whole of the green coloration is replaced with red, 
but on closer study it is evident that the character of the red links it up with 
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