RED-WINGED PARROT. 
quills almost entirely dark brown slightly edged with green on the outer webs and 
more extensively at the tips which are narrowly edged with yellow ; lower back 
and rump pale blue ; short upper tail coverts, head, hind neck, sides of neck, and 
sides of the face emerald green like the under wing coverts and axillaries ; long 
upper tail coverts, throat, breast, and entire under surface yellowish green ; tail 
dull green tipped with yellow, brighter green on the outer webs of the lateral 
feathers, dark brown on the inner webs which are margined with pale orange ; 
greater series of under wing coverts and quill lining greyish brown with lemon- 
yellow margins to the inner webs of the latter ; lower aspect of tail glossy black, 
paler on the outer feathers and broadly margined with pale yellow, or orange. 
Figured. Collected on the Fitzrov River, North-west Australia on the 2nd of June, 
1911. 
Immature. Resemble the female. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch three to six. White. 28 to 31 mm. by 24 to 26. 
Breeding season. September to December. 
This species, one of the most brightly marked of all the tribe, was brought 
back by Captain Cook’s party, so that it must have been a coastal bird in New 
South Wales at that time. I make this remark as North states it is not found 
there at the present day. 
It was later named Psittacus melanotus by Shaw, but nothing new was 
added. 
In the Suppl. Gen. Synops. Birds , p. 60, 1787, Latham had added a note : 
“ Crimson- Winged Parrot. Some specimens of this bird measure thirteen inches 
in length. The female differs from the male, in having a green back, and the 
wing coverts green, except a few of the greater ones, which are scarlet. 
Inhabits New South Wales — Mr. Pennant .” 
His original specimen was described from the Lev. Mus., so that appar- 
ently more than one specimen was procured by Captain Cook’s men. 
Gould was fortunate in meeting with it, and his notes are here quoted : 
“ The extensive belts of Acacia pendula which diversify the plains of the 
eastern portion of Australia are tenanted by this bird, either in small companies 
of six or eight, or in flocks of a much greater number. It is beyond my power 
to describe the extreme beauty of the appearance of the Red- winged Lory 
when seen among the silvery branches of the Acacia, particularly when the 
flocks comprise a large number or adult males, the gorgeous scarlet of whose 
shoulders offers so striking a contrast to the surrounding objects. It is rather 
thinly dispersed among the trees skirting the rivers which intersect the Liverpool 
Plains, but from these towards the interior it increases in number. Being 
naturally shy and wary, it is much more difficult of approach than the 
generality of Parrakeets ; and it seldom becomes tame or familiar in captivity. 
Its flight is performed with a motion of the wings totally different from that 
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