KING PARROT. 
them as there is a difference in coloration agreeing with locality, the Victorian 
birds being dullest and the Cairns specimens brightest. 
The names will be : 
Alisterus scapularis scapular is (Lichtenstein) New South Wales : 
South Queensland. 
Alisterus scapularis neglectus (Mathews), Victoria. 
Alisterus scapularis minor (Mathews), North Queensland. 
APROSMICTUS INSIGNISSIMUS. 
Aprosmictus insignissimus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1874, p. 500 ; Darling Downs, 
Queensland; id., ib., 1875, p. 314; id., Birds New Guinea, Vol. V., pi. 10, 1875; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., pp. 193,208, 1878; id., Tab. List. 
Austr. Birds., p. 30, 1888 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 486 
(note), 1891. 
Ramsay has written : “ This is merely a lus. nat. of A. scapulatus. Patches 
of yellow feathers frequently may be observed in the plumage of this species ; 
when last in the Richmond River district I shot one with a patch of yellow on 
the abdomen, and another with yellow feathers on the back of the head : there 
is one now in the Australian Museum with a row of yellow feathers on the upper 
wing coverts, and another with a yellow tinge pervading the whole of the 
upper surface. Mr. Shaw, who shot the bird described by Mr. Gould, informed 
me that it had paired with a female in the ordinary plumage of that sex of 
A. scapulatus .” 
North concluded : “ In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, I saw the 
specimen which Gould described as Aprosmictus insignissimus. I regard it as 
a hybrid, Aprosmictus cyanopygius + Ptistes erythropterus ; another specimen 
has the upper part of the rump red.” 
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