THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
middle feathers towards the tips, the outer feathers yellow on the inner webs ; 
lower hind-neck and upper mantle scarlet, the feathers of the former broadly tipped 
with dark and those of the latter with green ; entire head and sides of face to the 
sides of the throat dusky brown at the base, with bright blue shaft-lines to the 
feathers ; throat and middle of abdomen blackish tinged with glossy green ; 
breast and a collar on the hind-neck orange-red ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 
sides of the body bright red, some of the feathers on the latter tipped with very 
dark green ; lower flanks, thighs and Tinder tail-coverts green with yellowish bases 
to the feathers ; outer greater under wlng-coverts and tips of primary- and secondary- 
quills below brown, the remainder of the quill-lining yellow ; lower aspect of tail 
for the most part yellow, rather darker on the central feathers. Bill orange yellow ; 
eyes red ; feet slate-grey. Total length 295 mm. ; culmen 20, wing 146, tail 137, 
tarsus 17. Figured. Collected at Palmerston, Northern Territory, on the 8th 
of May, 1886. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nest. A hollow in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch, two; white, about the same size as the preceding speoies. 
Breeding-season. May to December. 
When Vigors and Horsfield described this bird they wrote : “ This species 
approaches very nearly to the two preceding, but it may at once be 
distinguished from them by the colour of the nuchal collar, which is scarlet, 
with the feathers margined by deep blue. The colour of the head is of a 
paler azure, and that of the breast and inner wing-coverts is more of an orange 
and less of a scarlet than in Trich . hcematodus ( =moluccanus ).” 
They gave no locality, nor did they give any collector’s name. Con- 
sequently in 1912 I designated as the type-locality North-west Australia. 
Salvadori placed in the synonymy with doubt the Var. C. of Latham’s 
Blue-bellied Parrot. I have transferred this to the preceding species, as it 
seems to have been based upon an aberrant specimen or bad painting and 
I do not think specimens of the present species, owing to its restricted range, 
had at that time been procured. 
Campbell and North include in its range North Queensland, and 
Banfield, in his “Dunk Island Birds,” includes the name. I further observe 
that Gould, in his “Introduction to the Birds of Australia,” 8vo ed., 
1848, p. 77, has written : “ Procured at Port Molle on the north-east coast, 
previously only found at Port Essington. — J. McGillivray.” 
I have never seen a Queensland specimen, nor have I heard of the 
whereabouts of such a bird, so consequently disallow this locality until 
authenticated. 
Owing to its northern habitat, little has been recorded of the habits of 
this bird. 
Gould gives Gilbert’s notes as follows : “ This species is abundant in 
all parts of the Cobourg Peninsula and the adjacent islands, and is an especial 
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