THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
feathers golden green, the lateral feathers blue-grey on the outer webs, inner webs 
for the most part deep rose-pink with a line of black next to the shaft ; fore part 
of head and sides of the face pale bluish-grey, chin, throat, and fore-neck pale pink 
like the lower flanks and thighs ; breast, abdomen, and sides of the body pale 
grey tinged with yellow like the under tail-coverts ; flanks tinged with blue ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts bright emerald-green, the greater series of the 
latter dark-brown ; quills below greyish brown with yellow edges to the inner 
webs ; lower aspect of tail glossy-black the inner margins of the outer feathers 
rose-pink, which become paler at the tips. Bill pinkish red ; feet flesh colour. 
Total length, 410 mm. ; culmen 17, wings 179, tail 212, tarsus 19. Figured, 
Collected in North-west Australia in June, 1913, and is the type of Northipsitta 
alexandrce rogersi. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch, four to six. White. 27 to 29 mm. by 23 to 24. 
Breeding-season. September, October and November. 
This beautiful species is confined to the interior of Australia and was first 
made known to science by Gould, in 1863, who wrote : “I feel assured that 
the discovery of an additional species of the lovely genus Polytelis will be 
hailed with pleasure by ornithologists, and that they will assent to its bearing 
the specific name of alexandrce, in honour of that Princess who, we may reason- 
ably hope, is destined at some future time to be the Queen of these realms 
and their dependencies, of which Australia is by no means the most 
inconspicuous. 
“ The Polytelis alexandrce is in every respect a typical Polytelis, having the 
delicate bill and elegantly striped tail characteristic of that form. It is of 
the same size as P. barrabandi, but differs from that species in having the 
crown blue and the lower part of the cheeks rose pink instead of yellow. For 
my knowledge of this new species I am indebted to the Board of Governors 
of the South Australian Institute, who liberally forwarded for my inspection 
a selection from the ornithological collection made by Mr. Frederick G. 
Waterhouse during Mr. Stuart’s late Exploratory Expedition into Central 
Australia. The locality on the label attached to the specimens is Howell’s 
Ponds, Central Australia, 16° 54' 7" S.” 
The vernacular selected was the Princess of Wales’ Parrakeet, but 
upon her accession to the throne the alternative Alexandrine Parrot was 
chosen, but as there is another Alexandrine Parrot, I now use Alexandra 
Parrot. 
Nearly forty years elapsed before any more specimens were recorded 
when in the Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 44, 1891, Ramsay noted : “ Two living 
specimens have recently been brought to Adelaide, S.A., and Mr. J. S. 
Clarke of that city, who has examined them, states (in lit.) that they were 
obtained from a nest in a hollow branch of a tree near a place called 
“ Crown Point,” about 50 miles beyond “ Charlotte Waters,” in Lat. 25° 
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