Order PSITTAGIFORMES Family POLY TELI TI DJE. 
No. 349. 
NORTHIPSITTA ALEXANDRA. 
ALEXANDRA PARROT. 
(Plate 297.) 
Polyteles ALEXANDRAS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1863, p. 232 : Howell’s Pond, 
Central Australia. 
Polyteles alexandrce Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1863, p. 232. 
Polytelis alexandrce Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 32, 1865 ; id., Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pt. rv. (pi. 62), 1867; Higgles, Om. Austr., pt. xxi., 1870; 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. 43, 1891 ; id., Ibis, 1891, p. 298 ; Salvadori, 
Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 479, 1891 ; Hurst, Emu, Vol. III., p. 115, 1903 
(W.A.) ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVEIL, p. 268, 1912 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. 
XIV., p. 172, 1915 (W.A.). 
Platycercus alexandrce Finsch, Hie Papageien, Vol. II , p. 261, 1868 ; Reichenow, Journ. 
fur Orn., 1881, p. 133. 
Spathopterus alexandroe North, Ibis, 1895, p. 339 ; id. , Rep. Horn Sci. Exped., pt. n., 
Zool., p. 60, pi. v., 1896 ; id., Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 130, 
1898 (N.W.A.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 64, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 623, 1901 ; Heartland, Viet. Nat., Vol. XIX., p. 152, 
1903 ; id., Emu, Vol III., p. 73, 1903 ; id., Viet. Nat., Vol. XXII., p. 83, Sept. 
1905 (Cent. A.) ; Salvadori, Ibis, 1907, p. 141 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, 
p. 48, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 192, 1910 (W.A.) ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 104, 1911 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 129, 1913. 
Spathopterus alexandrce rogersi Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 57, Apl. 7, 1916 : 
North west Australia. 
Spathopterus alexandrce alexandrce Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Central Australia and Northern South Australia ; Interior of North- and 
Mid-west Australia. 
Adult. Hind-neck, mantle, back, scapulars and innermost secondaries pale olive-green ; 
upper wing-coverts bright yellowish-green ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dull 
pale blue like the outer webs of the outer secondary quills ; outer webs of primary- 
quills bluish-green with narrow yellow edgings, inner webs of primary and secondary 
quills dark brown, becoming paler on the inner portion which is narrowly edged 
with yellow ; rump and short upper tail-coverts freckled with blue, long upper 
tail-coverts pale olive with rusty-red edges to some of the feathers ; middle tail- 
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