Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 330. 
Family TRICE OGLOSSIDAE. 
GLOSSOPSITTA PUSILLA. 
LITTLE LORIKEET. 
(Plate 279, middle figure.) 
Psittacus pusillus White, Joum. Voy. New South Wales, p. 262, pi. (48), 1790 ; New 
South Wales (near Sydney). 
Psittacus pusillus White, Joum. Voy. New South Wales, p. 262, pi. (48), 1790. 
Psittacus pusillus Latham, Index Omith., Vol. I., p. 106, 1790 : New South Wales. 
Psittacus nuclialis (not Shaw & Nodder 1810) Bechstein, Kurze Uebers Vogel, p. 81, 1811 ; 
New South Wales (based on Levaillant, pi. 63). 
Trichoglossus pusillus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 130, 1826 ; 
Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 293, 1827 ; Wagler, 
Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch., Vol. I., p. 548, 1832 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xm. 
(Vol. V., pi. 54), 1843; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 195, 1878; 
Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 238, 1887 (Tas.) ; id., ib., 1887, p. 86, 
1888 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, 
p. 105, 1891 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 241, 1910 (N.Q.). 
Lathamus pusillus Lesson, Traite d’Omith., p. 206, 1830. 
Coriphilus pusillus Schlegel., De Dierent., p. 78, 1864. 
N anodes pusillus Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas, Vol. III., Psittaci, p. 115, 1864. 
Glossopsittacus pusillus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 71, 1891 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 61, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 597, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. V., p. 145, 1906 (Kangaroo I.) ; Morgan, 
ib., p. 224 (reK’goo I. record) ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 12, 1907 (Viet.) ; Austin, 
ib., p. 75 (N.S.W.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 45, 1908; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasm., p. 90, 1910 (Tas.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., 
p. 52, 1911 ; Mivart, Monogr. Lories, p. 145, pi. xlvi. (lower fig.). 
Glossopsitta pusilla Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 103, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond. ) 1875, p. 602 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 268, 1890 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 260 
1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 121, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 138, 
1915 (Viet.) 
Glossopsitta pusilla ashbyi Mathews, Austral Av. Record, Vol. II., p. 127, Jan. 28, 1915 : 
Cairns, North Queensland. 
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