Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 347. 
Family POL Y TELITIDM. 
POLYTELIS SWAINSONII. 
GREEN LEEK. 
(Plate 295.) 
§ 
Psittacus swainsonii Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Yol. XXXIX., p. 39, 
1826 : New South Wales. 
Psittacus barrabandii Swainson (not of Kuhl, 1820), Zool. Ulus., Vol. I., pi. 59, 1821 : 
“ New Holland ” : in 1912 I selected New South Wales. 
Palceornis barrabandi Vigors, Zool. Joum., Vol. II., p. 56, 1825 ; Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. 
Zool., Vol. XIV., pi. 17, p. 128, 1826 ; Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
(Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 287, 1827 ; Vigors, Zool. Joum., Vol. III., p. 244, 1827 ; 
Selby, Nat. Libr. Parrots, p. 69, pi. 1, 1836. 
Psittacus swainsonii Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XXXIX., p. 39, 1826 : 
new name for P. barrabandii Swainson. 
Palceornis (?) rosaceus Vigors, Zool. Journ., Vol. V., p. 274, June 1830; Lear, Illus. 
Psittaeidse, pt. m., Jan. 1831. 
Polytelis * barrabandi Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch, Vol. I., pp. 489, 519, 700, 
1832 ; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pi. 67. pt. rv., 1838 ; id.. Birds Austr., pt. xvi. 
(Vol. V., pi. 15), 1845 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1863, p. 232 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., VoL II., p. 31, 1865 ; Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 193, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 16, 1888 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. 
Psittaci, p. 40, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 478, 1891 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 63, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 623, 1901 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 12, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 48, 1908 ; North Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 99, 
1911 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 209, 1912 (N.S.W.). 
Barrabandius rosaceus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Ay., Vol. I., p. 2, 1850. 
Platycercus rosaceus Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. in., sect, ii., p. 9, 1859. 
Polyteles rosaceus Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. Berigt. p. xi, 1863. 
Platycercus barrabandi Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 259, 1868. 
Polytelis swainsonii Mathews, Nov. Zool. Vol. XVIII., p. 13, 1911 ; id., ib., p. 267 , 1912 ; 
id. List Birds Austr., p. 128, 1913. 
* Sometimes spelt Polyteles. 
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