Order PS1TTACIF0RMES 
No. 332. 
Family OPOPSITTIDJE. 
OPOPSITTA LEADBEATERI. 
BLUE-FACED LORILET. 
(Plate 280, upper figures.) 
Cyclopsitta leadbeateri McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. iv., Yol. XVI., p. 54, July 1, 
1875 : Rockingham Bay, North Queensland. 
Cyclopsitta leadbeateri McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. iv., Vol. XVI., p. 54, July 1, 1875. 
Cyclopsitta maccoyi Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 314 (Aug. 1, 1875) : Rockingham 
Bay, North Queensland ; id., Birds New Guinea, pt. i., pi. 10, Vol. V., pi. 7, 1875 ; 
Sassi, Journ. fur Orn. 1909, p. 382 (N.Q.) ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., 
p. 148, 1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 155, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Cyclopsitta macleayana Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 602 : Cardwell, North 
Queensland ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 195, 1878 ; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr., Psittaci, p. 33, 1891. 
Cyclopsittacus maccoyi Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 139 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 95, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 61, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 599, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 46, 1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 241, 1910 (N.Q.). 
Opopsitta diophthalma leadbeateri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 261, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 121, 1913 ; id. South Austr. Ornith., Vol. II., p. 30, 1915. 
Opopsitta diophthalma boweri Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., p. 127, Jan. 28, 1915 : 
Barron River, North Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cardwell district). 
Adult male. General colour above and below green, darker on the back, wings and tail, 
brighter on the head, hind-neck, sides of neck and breast, paler and more ^ello wish- 
green on the lower breast, abdomen, thighs, under tail-coverts and under wing-] 
coverts, the outer margin of the last more or less blue ; bastard- wing, primary- 
coverts, and outer aspect of the primary- and secondary-quills dark blue, with 
the inner webs dark brown, a whitish spot on those of the quills which commence 
on the third or fourth primary-quill, some of the outer webs of the secondary- 
quills green ; base of forehead red, as is also a large patch on the sides of the face, 
as well as the inner webs of the innermost secondaries ; lores and a line below 
the eye turquoise-blue ; chin and lower cheeks tinged with purplish-blue ; a large 
patch of yellow on the sides of the body ; greater series of under wing-coverts 
and quill-lining pale brown, the margins of the former and a band across the 
latter lemon-yellow ; lower aspect of tail, which is obscured by the under tail-coverts, 
greyish-brown ; bill light blue-grey ; eyes dusky, feet light grey. Total length 
130 mm. ; culmen 14, wing 92, tail 49, tarsus 10. Figured. Collected at Tolga, 
North Queensland, in August, 1911. 
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