Order PSITTA Cl FORME 8 
No. 345. 
Family LORIIDM. 
LORIUS PECT ORALIS. 
RED-SIDED PARROT. 
(Plate 293.)* 
Psittactjs pectoralis P. L. S. Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., p. 78, 1776: “ China ”=New 
Guinea. 
Eclectus 'pectoralis macgillivrayi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol, II., p. 76, Dec. 29, 
1913 : Pascoe River, North Queensland. 
Eclectus pectoralis Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., pp. 187, 196 note, 1914 : North 
Queensland ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. XIV., pt. i., pi. 1, 1914. 
Eclectus pectoralis macgillivrayi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 75, 1913 ; id ., 
List Birds Austr., p. xxvr, 1913 ; id.. Ibis, 1915, p. 81. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Pascoe River District). 
Adult male. General colour above and below green, brighter and somewhat paler on the 
head, hind-neck, mantle and sides of the face, duller on the wings and middle 
tail-feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, primary and secondary quills deep 
ultramarine blue, inclining to black on the inner webs of the feathers, the outer 
edges of some of the feathers paler blue, outer margin of the wing brighter and 
inclining to cobalt-blue ; the secondary quills green on the greater portion of the 
outer webs, the green increasing in extent towards the innermost which are 
almost entirely green ; outermost tail-feathers deep blue, broadly margined with 
dark brown on the inner webs, the next pair slightly edged with green on the outer 
webs, which colour increases in extent towards the middle ones, which are entirely 
green with a tinge of blue towards the tips, all the tips being whitish or dull yellow ; 
middle of throat blackish ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and a large patch on 
the sides of the body bright red ; under tail-coverts yellowish-green at the tips ; 
greater series of under wing-coverts and quills below glossy-black ; lower aspect of 
tail glossy-black, yellow at the tips. Bill, upper mandible red with yellowish white 
tip, lower mandible black, eyes brown, feet mealy black. Total length, 500 mm. ; 
culmen 45, wing 296, tail 180, tarsus 27. Figured. Collected on the Pascoe River, 
North Queensland, on the 17th of September, 1913. And is my type of Eclectus 
pectoralis macgillivrayi. 
Adult female. General colour above and below red, brighter and more scarlet on the head 
and neck all round and under tail-coverts duller and inclining to crimson on the 
back, wings, and basal portion of the tail ; a band of blue across the mantle ; 
a narrow blue circle round the eye ; abdomen and sides of the body, purplish-blue, 
brighter on the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and edge of the wing both above 
and below ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, outer portions of the primaries and 
tips of secondaries deep blue, brighter on the outer edges and dark brown on 
* The plate is lettered Eclectus macgillivrayi. 
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