Order PSITTACIFORMES Family TRICHOGLOSSIDM. 
No. 325. 
TRICHOGLOSSUS RUBRITORQUIS. 
RED-COLLARED LORIKEET. 
(Plate 276.) 
Tbiohoglosstjs rubritorquis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 291, 1827 : No locality given. = North-west Australia, selected by me in 1912, 
now restricted to Derby. 
Trichoglossus rubritorquis* Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 291, 1827 ; Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen Munch., Vol. I., pp. 552, 709, 1832 ; 
Lear, Illustr. Psittacidae, pt. vm., 1831 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix. (Vol. V., pi. 49), 
1842 ; Elsey, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1857, p. 27 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 95, 1865 ; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xvn., pi. 85, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Vol. II., p. 195, 1878 ; Masters, ib., p. 274, 1878 (N.T.) ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; Salvadori, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., 
p. 60, 1891 ; North, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XVI., p. 12, 1899 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 60, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 593, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 62, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Le Souef, ib. p. 93 (N.T.) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral. , p. 45, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX. pp. 5, 57, 1909 (N.-W.A.) ; 
Crossman, ib., p. 149, 1910 (N.-W.A.) ; Mathews, ib. , Vol. X. , p. 108, 1910 
(N.-W.A.) ; Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 268, 1911 (N.-W.A.) ; North, Aust. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 43, 1911 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 119, 1913 ; 
Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 46, 1914 (N.T.) ; Mivart, Monogr., Lories, pi. xxxvii., 
p. 115. 
Trichoglossus rubritorquatus Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. H., p. 824, 1868 ; Ramsay, Cat. 
Austr. Psitt., p. 97, 1891. 
Trichoglossus hcematodus rubritorquis Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XH., p. 211, 1905 (N.T. 
and N.-W.A.). 
Trichoglossus rubritorquis rubritorquis Mathews, Nov. Zool. Vol. XVIII., p. 259, 1912. 
Trichoglossus rubritorquis melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 35, 1912 : 
Melville Island ; Zietz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 13, 1914 (M.I.). 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory (as far east as McArthur River) ; 
Melville Island. 
Adult male. Back, wings, scapulars and tail green ; primary- and secondary- quills brown 
on the inner webs and on the tips of the former, the outer feather brown also on the 
outer web, the edge of which is yellow on the middle portion, the middle and basal 
portion of the inner webs bright yellow ; tail green with a bluish tinge on the 
* Commonly written rubritorquea . 
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