Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 327. 
Family TRICHOGLOSSIDjE. 
PSITTEUTELES VERSICOLOR. 
VARIED LORIKEET. 
(Plate 278). 
Trichoglossus versicolor Lear, Illustr. Psittacidse, pt. vn., 1831 : No locality. I selected 
in 1912 Cape York, Queensland. 
Trichoglossus versicolor Lear, Illustr. Psittacidse, pt. vn. 1831 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix. 
(Vol. V., pi. 51). 1842; Jacquinotand Pucheran, Voy. Pole Sud. Zool., Vol. III., p. 102, 
1853 (N.T.) ; Elsey, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1857, p. 27 ; Finsch, Die Papageien, 
Vol. II., p. 853, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 195, 1878 ; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittac., p. 98, 1891 ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 211, 1905 (N.T.). 
Psitteuteles versicolor Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 120, 1913. 
Ptilosclera versicolor Bonaparte, Rem. Char. Ost., Psittacides, p. 7, 1857 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 98, 1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 274, 1878 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 66, 1891 : Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 60, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 595, 
1901 ; id., Emu, Vol. II., p. 36, 1902 ; Hall, ib., p. 62, 1902 (N.-W.A.) ; Berney, 
ib., p. 218, 1903 (N.Q.) ; Le Souef, ib., Vol. III., p. 55, 1903 (N.T.) ; Berney, ib., 
p. 188, 1904 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 45, 1908 ; id., Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 5, 1909 (N.-W.A.); G. F. Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 268, 1911 (N.-W.A.); 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 47, 1911 ; Macgillivray, Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 155, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 46, 1914 (N.T.) ; 
Mivart, Monogr., Lories, pi. xliv., p. 135. 
Goriphilus versicolor Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., Psitt., p. 59, 1859. 
Nanodes versicolor Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas, Vol. III., Psittaci, p. 115, 1864. 
Neopsittacus versicolor Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Moll., Vol. III., p. 519, 1882. 
Trichoglossus versicolor versicolor Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 259, 1912. 
Trichoglossus versicolor mellori Mathews, ib., South Alligator River, Northern Territory. 
Zietz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 13, 1914 : Melville Island. 
Trichoglossus versicolor whitei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 260. 1912 : Derby 
North-west Australia. 
Psitteuteles versicolor versicolor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 120, 1913. 
Psitteutdes versicolor mellori Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Northern Territory, North-western Australia. 
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