Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 328. 
Family TRI CH OGLOSSIDA2. 
GLOSSOPSITTA CONCINNA. 
MUSK LORIKEET. 
(Plate 279, lower figure.) 
Psittacus concinnus Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists 5 Miscellany, Vol. III., pi. 87, Dec. 1, 
1791 ; New Holland =New South Wales selected by me, 1912. 
Pacific Parroquet (a new variety) Phillips, “Voyage Botany Bay , 55 pi. opp. p. 155 
(June 17), 1789. 
Psittacus australis Latham (not of Gmelin 1788), Index. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 104, 1790 : 
Botany Bay, New South Wales (based on Phillips’ account). 
Psittacus concinnus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. HI., pi. 87, 1791 ; Kuhl, Nov. 
Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol., Vol. X., p. 46, 1820. 
Psittacus p aci ficus Shaw (not of Gmelin 1788), Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., pt. n., p. 419, 1811. 
Psittacus rubrifrons Bechstein, Kurze Uebers Vogel, p. 84, pi. 11, 1811 ; New South Wales 
(based on Levaillant’s pi. 48). 
Psittacus velatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXV., p. 373 (Dec. 26), 1818: 
New South Wales (also based on Levaillant’s pi. 48). 
Triclioglossus concinnus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 130, 1826; 
Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 292, 1827 ; Jardine 
and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. I., pi. 34, 1829 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xni. 
(Vol. V., pi. 52), 1843; Ramsay, Ibis 1865, p. 305; Diggles, Orn. Austr., pt. xn., 
1867 ; Finsch, Die Papag., Vol. II., p. 857, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 195, 1878;. Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1879, p. 170, 
figs. 5 and 6; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 238, 1887 (Tas.) ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds; p. 17, 1888 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., 2nd Ser., Vol. IV., p. 418, 1889 (N.S.W.) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr., Psittaci, 
p. 103, 1891. 
Lathamus concinnus Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 206, 1830. 
Trichoglossus australis Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen Munch., Vol. I., p. 549, 1832. 
Centrourus australis G. R. Gray, List Genera Birds, p. 51, 1840. 
Olossopsitta australis Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. H., p. 100, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 602 (Q.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 268, 1890. 
Coriphilus australis Schlegel, De Dierent, p. 77, 1864. 
N anodes australis Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas, Vol. III., Psittaci, p. 114, 1864. 
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