Order PSITTACIFORMES Family LORI I DM , 
No. 346. 
GEOFFROYUS GEOFFROYI. 
RED-CHEEKED PARROT. 
(Plate 294.)* 
Psittacus geoffroyi Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 103, pi* 21, 1811: “New 
Holland ” — Timor. 
Pseudopsittacus maclennani Macgillivray, Emn, Vol. XIII., p. 105, 1st October, 1913 : 
Pascoe River, North Queensland. 
Geoffroyus geoffroyi maclennani Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. xxv., 1913; id., Emu, 
Vol. XIV., p. 1, pi. i, 1914 ; id., Ibis, 1915, p. 81. 
Distribution : North Queensland (Pascoe River District). 
Adult male. General colour above and below green but paler below, where many of the 
feathers have yellow bases ; some of the inner upper wing-coverts are tipped with 
bronze ; primary and secondary quills dark brown on the inner webs, becoming 
paler towards the edges which are yellowish-white ; tail-feathers yellowish green ; 
crown of head and nape lavender-blue ; forehead, sides of face, and throat scarlet ; 
under wing coverts and axillaries turquoise blue, more or less mixed with green 
on the edge of the whig, the greater series for the most part glossy greyish brown 
slightly tipped with turquoise-blue, lower aspect of the quills greyish brown. 
Under surface of tail greenish yellow. “ Bill, upper mandible red, with olive 
yellow tip ; lower dark brown, skin round nostrils olive green ; eyes outer circle 
silvery cream, inner circle greenish ; skin round eye pale olive, eyelid darker ; 
legs and feet olive green ” (McLennan). Total length 260 mm. ; culmen 22, 
wing 158, tail 78, tarsus 16. Figured. Collected on the Pascoe River, North 
Queensland, on the 14th of July, 1913, and is my type of Geoff roy us geoffroyi. 
macgillivrayi. 
Adult female. Entire back, rump, upper tail coverts and wings dark dull green ; some 
of the inner upper wing coverts have bronze tips which form a patch on the wing ; 
inner webs of primary and secondary quills dark brown on the basal portion, 
becoming narrower on the apical portion where the green encroaches on to the 
inner web, the edges of which are yellowish white, the innermost secondaries green 
like the back, the outermost, or first primary almost entirely blackish, narrowly 
edged with green on the outer web ; tail yellowish green, becoming more green 
on the lateral feathers ; entire head, nape, and ear coverts cinnamon brown ; 
forehead, lores, cheeks, and throat pale dull green with minute dark shaft streaks 
to the feathers ; under surface paler green than the upper surface with yellow 
bases to the feathers on the flanks and under tail coverts ; axillaries and under 
wing coverts turquoise blue, the greater series of the latter glossy pale brown 
like the lower aspect of the quills ; under surface of the tail greenish yellow. 
* The plate is lettered Geoff roy ns made-mam . 
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