MUSK LORIKEET. 
Glossopsittacus concinnus Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 71, 1872 ; Salvador!, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 69, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 60, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 595, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 17, 1902 (Viet.); Hill, ib., p. 166, 1903 (Viet.); Littler, ib., p. 170, 
1903 (Tas.) ; Godfrey, ib., Vol. IV., p. 171, 1905 (Viet.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 12, 
1907 (Viet.) ; Hill, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 21, 1907 (Viet.) ; Austin, ib., p. 75, 1907 
(N.S.W.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 45, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds 
Tasm., p. 88, 1910; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 49, 1911 ; 
Mivart, Monogr., Lories, pi. xlv., fig. 2, p. 141. 
Glossopsitta concinna North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. , Ser. n., Vol. III., p. 1778, 1889; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 260, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 120, 1913 ; 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 138, 1915 (Viet.). 
Glossopsitta concinna didim us Mathews, Austral Av. Bee., Vol. H., p. 127, Jan. 28, 1915: 
Tasmania. 
Distribution. South Queensland; New South Wales ; Victoria; Tasmania; South 
Australia. 
Adult female. General colour both above and below, including the back, wings and tail 
on the upper-surface and the throat, breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts and under 
wing-coverts on the lower parts green ; inner webs of the bastard- wing, primary- 
coverts, primary- and secondary-quills, blackish -brown, the outer primary uniform 
blackish with a very narrow pale edging on the outer web ; middle tail-feathers 
green, the outer feathers red at the base and yellow at the tips on the inner webs ; 
mantle brownish-yellow ; hinder crown and nape bluish-green ; fore part of head, 
lores, and an elongated patch behind the eye, reaching to the sides of the neck, 
bright red ; cheeks and throat inclining to emerald green ; a patch of yellow on 
each side of the lower breast ; abdomen and under tail-coverts somewhat paler 
green than the back; outer edge of wing yellowish-white ; greater under w ng- 
coverts and quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail red on the basal portion 
and yellowish towards the tips ; bill fiery orange and black ; eyes with outer 
ring fiery red, middle grey-black, inner pale yellow ; feet pale green. Total 
length 245 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 130, tail 92, tarsus 12. Figured. Collected 
at Narrawa, New South Wales, on the 3rd of June, 1909. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Nest. A hollow in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch, two ; white. 23 to 25 mm. by 19 to 22. 
Breeding- season. August to December. 
The first description and figure of this bird appears to have been given by 
Phillips in his \ oyage to Botany Bay ” 1789, when he gave a plate (dated 
June 17) opposite page 155, where he wrote : “ Pacific Parroquet. A new 
variety. The variety here represented has a brown bill, tinged with red at 
the end, and a cap of azure blue at the back of the head, interspersed with a 
few small feathers of a yellowish green ; the top of the wings is of a yellow 
hue, and there are no blue feathers in the wings.” 
In the Index Ornith Vol. I,, p. 104, 1790, Latham proposed Psittacus 
australis for the bird described and figured above, but Gmelin had used that 
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