Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 331. 
Family OPOPS1TTIDAS. 
OPOPSITTA COXENI. 
RED-FACED LORILET. 
(Plate 280, lower figures.) 
Cyclopsitta coxeni Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1867, p. 182 ; thirty miles inland 
from Brisbane, Queensland. 
Cyclopsitta coxeni Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1867, p. 182 ; id., Birds Austr. Suppl., 
pt. rv. (pi. 65), 1867; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 195, 1878; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id.. Cat. Austr., Psittaci, p. 32, 1891 ; 
Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 147, 1913. 
Psittacula coxeni Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 957, 1868. 
Cyclopsittacus coxeni Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 139 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 94, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 61, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 598, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 46, 1908. 
Opopsitta coxeni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 261, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., 
p. 121, 1913. 
Manopsitta coxeni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 62, 1913. 
Distribution. South Queensland, Northern New South Wales. 
Adult male. General colour above and below green ; head, back, wings and tail dark 
green ; fore part of face, ear-coverts, and inner webs, and innermost secondary- 
quills red ; a tinge of dark blue on the lower cheeks ; bastard-wing, primary -coverts, 
primary- and secondary-quills dark blue on the outer webs and blackish, with a 
yellowish white spot on the inner ones ; tail dark green like the back ; throat 
and entire under-surface yellowish-green, with a patch of yellow on the sicj^s of 
the body ; under wing-coverts bluish-green ; the greater series and quill-lining 
glossy-brown with a pale yellow band across the latter ; lower aspect of tail, 
which is hidden by the under tail-coverts, pale brown ; bill bluish horn ; eyes 
brown; feet ashy brown. Total length 165 mm.; culmen 15, wing 98, tail 49, 
tarsus 11. Figured. Collected on the Tweed River, Northern New South Wales 
in June, 1892. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male (?) 
Nest and Eggs. Undescribed (?) 
In the Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, p. 182, Gould wrote about a new 
Parrakeet from Australia, thus : 
“ Mr. Coxen of Brisbane, in Queensland, having forwarded to me a 
correct drawing of a small species of Parrakeet new to the Australian 
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