CRIMSON PARROT. 
call it P. ?nelanoptera was thought by the meeting to be a good one, but it was 
considered more specimens should be examined to ascertain if this characteristic 
in the Island bird was fully established.” 
In 1911, in the Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 116, North con- 
sidered the two preceding (ranking adelaidce as a distinct species) as “ well 
defined geographical variations or races” : “ The Kangaroo Island form differs 
not only from Platycercus elegans Gmelin, by the greater amount of black on 
the feathers of the back, but principally by the inner half of the upper wing- 
coverts (except the margins of some of the median and greater series) being 
black.” 
In my “Reference List of the Birds of Australia” (Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
1912), I recognised six subspecies (pp. 269-270) ranking adelaidce as such ; thus : 
“ Platycercus elegans elegans (Gmelin). South Queensland, New 
South Wales, Victoria (North). 
Platycercus elegans nigrescens Ramsay. North Queensland. 
Platycercus elegans ynelanopterus North. Kangaroo Island. 
Platycercus elegans victorice nov. 
“ Differs from P. c. elegans in the deeper, duller red, especially noticeable 
on the rump and under surface, and in the more extensive black markings 
on the back.” Victoria. 
Platycercus elegans adelaidce Gould. South Australia (Adelaide). 
Platycercus elegans subadelaidce nov. 
“ Differs from P. e. adelaidce in being less brilliant below and in having 
less red on the crown. South Australia (Port Augusta).” 
In my List I conservatively synonymised the two new forms I had 
introduced with elegans and adelaidce respectively, but I am here compelled 
to reinstate them. In this view I am confirmed by the remarks of Captain 
S. A. White already printed above. As regards the ranges of the subspecies, 
it may be as well to point out that the usage of political names obscufes the 
facts : thus P. e. elegans belongs to the zoological division which takes in the 
east of New South Wales, the South of Queensland and the North of Victoria, 
while P. e. victorice is restricted to the South of Victoria below the Great 
Dividing Range and thence into the south-east of South Australia, as recorded 
by Ashby above. It was pointed out by A. G. Campbell that the birds of 
Kangaroo Island had more apparent affinity with the birds of South Victoria 
than with the birds of South Australia. Again the form adelaidce, which used 
to live in Adelaide and still lives in the adjacent back country, is represented 
by the form subadelaidce from Port Augusta which occurs throughout the 
Flinders’ Ranges : but both these places are in South Australia. 
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