Order PS ITT A Cl FORME 8 
No. 329. 
Family TRICHOGLOSS1DM. 
GLOSSOPSITTA PORPHYROCEPHALA. 
PURPLE-CROWNED LORIKEET. 
(Plate 279, top figure.) 
Trichoglossus porphyrocephalus Dietrichsen, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XVII., 
pt. iv., p. 553, 1837 : No locality ; I here designate South Australia (New South 
Wales was an error). 
Psittacus purpurea (not of Muller 1776) Dietrichsen, Philos. Mag. (new series), Vol. XI., 
p. 387, 1832 (May) : No locality ; Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen, Munch., Vol. I., 
p. 747, 1832 (after Dec. ?). 
Trichoglossus porphyrocephalus Dietrichsen, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XVII., pt. iv., 
p. 553, 1837 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. i. (Vol. V., pi. 53), 1840 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. 
Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 41, 1843 ; Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 862, 
1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 195, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 17, 1888; id., Cat. Austr. Psitt., p. 101, 1891. 
Trichoglossus purpureus Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1839, p. 113. 
Olossopsitta porphyrocephala Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 102, 1865 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 120, 1913 ; 
Chandler, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 36, 1913 (Viet.) ; Orton and Sandland, ib., p. 77, 1913 
(W.A.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 138, 1915 (Viet.). 
Coriphilus porphyrocephalus Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 78, 1864. 
Nanodes porphyreocephalus Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas, Vol. III., Psittaci, p. 115, 1864. 
Glossopsittacus porphyrocephalus Salvadori, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 70, 1891 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 61, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 596, 1901 ; Belcher, Emu, Vol. I., p. 124, 1901 (Viet.) ; Milligan, ib., 
Vol. II., p. 74, 1902 (W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. III., p. 19, 1903 (W.A.) ; Nicholls, ib., 
Vol. V., p. 79, 1905 (W.A.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 13, 1907 (Viet.) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 45, 1908 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 130, 1910 (S.A.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 55, 1911 ; S. A. White, Emu, 
Vol. XIL, p. 5, 1912 (S.A.) ; Wilson, ib., p. 31, 1912 (Viet.); Mivart, Monogr. Lories, 
p. 143, pi. xlvi. (top fig.) 
Glossopsitta porphyrocephala porphyrocephala Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTIL, p. 260, 
1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 120, 1913. 
Glossopsitta porphyrocephala whitlocki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 260, 1912 : 
Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 120, 1913. 
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