ORDER PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 351. 
Family POLY TELIT ID M. 
ALISTERUS SCAPULARIS, 
KING PARROT. 
(Plate 299.)* 
Psittacus scapularis Lichtenstein, “ Zool. Mus. Univers., Berlin, ed. 2 (preface Aug.), 
1818, p. 26 ” : I designate New South Wales. 
Tabuan Parrot, var. Phillip, Voy. Botany Bay, pi. opp. p. 153, 1789 ; White, Joum. Voy. 
New South Wales, pis. opp. pp. 168 and 169, 1790. 
Psittacus tabuensis var. B Latham, Index. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 88, 1790. 
Psittacus tabuensis coccineus Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 1792, p. 565 (not Psittacus coccineus 
Latham, 1790), based on Phillip’s pi. and descr. 
Psittacus tabuanus Shaw, Mus. Lever ,Vol. II., pi. 8, opp. p. 29, 1796: error for “tabuensis.” 
Psittacus tabuensis var. y Latham, Suppl. Index. Ornith., p. xx., 1801. 
Psittacus tabuensis Shaw, Gen. Zool., Yol. VIII., pt. n., p. 407, 1811 (not of Gmelin). 
Psittacus scapularis Lichtenstein, “ Verzn. . . . Saugethiere & Vogeln Zool. Mus., Berlin, 
1818, p. 5 ” : New South Wales ; id., “ Zool. Mus. Univers., Berl., ed. 2, 1818, p. 26.” 
Psittacus cyanopygius Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Yol. XXV., p. 339, Dec. 26, 
1818 : “ lies de la mer du Sud.” New South Wales. 
Psittacus scapulatus Kuhl, -Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Yol. X., p. 56, 1820; 
New South Wales ; Lesson Voy. Coquille, Vol. I., p. 631, 1831 (N.S.W.). 
Scarlet and Green Parrot Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. II., p. 116, 1822. 
Platycercus scapulatus Vigors, Zool. Joum., Vol. I., p. 528, 1825 ; Vigors & Horsfield, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 284, 1827 ; Wagler, Abhand. Ak. Wissen. 
Munch., Vol. I., pp. 492, 537, 705 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 127. 
Platycercus scapularis Swainson, Zool. Illus, 2nd Ser., pi. 26, 1829 ; Lesson Traite d’ Ornith., 
p. 207, 1830. 
Platycercus coeruleus Lesson, Voy. aut monde Coquille, Vol. I., p. 401, 1830 : error for 
“ scapulatus Vigors.” 
Platicercus scapullaris Lesson, Compl. de Buff, Vol. IX., Ois. p. 219, 1837. 
Aprosmictus scapulatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 112 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. vm. (Vol. V., pi. 17), 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 35, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 193, 1878 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. 
Soc., Q/ld., Vol. V., p. 27, 1888 (Q.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 16, 
* The plate is lettered Alisterus cyanopygius , 
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