Order PSITTACIFORMES 
Family POLY TELIT IDM. 
No .348. 
POLYTELIS ANTHOPEPLUS. 
BLACK-TAILED PARROT OR ROCK PEBBLER, 
(Plate 296.) 
Pal/eornis anthopeplu s Lear, Ulus. Psittacidae, pt. vm.,Oct. 1st 1831 : New South Wales. 
PalcBornis anthopeplus Lear, Illus. Psittacidse, pt. vm., 1831. 
Palceornis melanura Lear, ib., pt. xrr., 1832 : New South Wales ; Sturt, Two Exped. Int. 
South Austr., pi. opp. p. 191, 1834. 
Polytelis melanura Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv.,pl. 67 1838; id. Birds Austr., pt. xvm. 
(Vol. V., pi. 16), 1845 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1863, p. 232 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 33, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 193, 1878; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 16, 1888; id.. Cat. Austr. Psittaci, 
p. 42, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 479, 1891 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 63, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 626, 
1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 48, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 102, 1911 ; Orton and Sandland, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 77, 
1913 (W.A.). 
Platycercus melanurus Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 408, 1846 ; Finsch, Die Papageien. 
Vol. II., p. 256, 1868 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Om., 1881, p. 134. 
Psittacus melanurus Thienemami, Fortplan. d. ges. Vogel, p. 73, 1846. 
Barrabandius melanurus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 2, 1850. 
Polytelis anthopeplus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVII., p. 500, 1910 ; id. , ib., XVIII., p. 
268, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 129, 1913. 
Polytelis anthopeplus ivestralis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 127, 1915 : West 
Australia. 
Polytelis anthropeplus anthopeplus Mathews, ib. 
Distribution : Interior New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia ; South-west 
Australia. 
Adult male. General colour yellow including the head, lower back and rump, lesser and 
median upper wing-coverts, sides of face, throat, and entire under surface, including 
the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; darker and more olive-yellow on the head 
and hind-neck ; mantle and scapulais oil-green ; bastard-wing, greater upper 
wing-coverts, and primary -coverts bluish-black, the inner greater coverts red on 
the apical portion and tipped with yellow, the red becoming much paler on the 
terminal portion of the innermost secondaries ; primary and secondary quills dark 
blue on the outer webs and dark brown on the inner ones, with paler edges to some 
of the outer primaries, especially towards the tips ; long upper tail-coverts 
yellowish-brown ; tail-feathers for the most part deep blue on the outer webs 
and dark brown on the inner ones, the lateral feathers pale brown at the tips, all the 
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