Order PSITTAGIFORMES 
No. 353. 
Family PL A T Y CERCI DJE. 
PLATYCERCUS FLAVEOLUS. 
YELLOW PARROT. 
(Plate 301.)* 
Platycercus flayeolus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 26 : New South Wales. 
Sulphurheaded Parrot Latham, Gen. History Birds, Yol. II., p. 133, 1822 : New South 
Wales. 
Platycercus flaveolus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 26 ; id ., Synops Birds Austr., 
pt. ii. pi. 23, 1837 ; id., Birds Austr. pt. iv. (Vol. V., pi. 25), 1841 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 50, 1865; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. x., 1866; Finsch, 
Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 185, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 193, 1878; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 121; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 16, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 56, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 544, 1891 ; Hall, Key Austr. Birds, p. 64, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 632, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral, p. 49, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., 
p. 119, 1911 ; Cheney, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 205, 1915 (Vic.). 
Platycercus flaveolus flaveolus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 270, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 131, 1913. 
Platycercus flaveolus innominatus Mathews, Nov. Zool. Vol. XVIII., p. 270, 1912 : 
Mannam, South Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 131, 1913. 
Distribution. Interior New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia adjoining. 
Adult male. Hind-neck, mantle, upper back, scapulars, inner median and greater upper 
wing-coverts and innermost secondaries dark brown broadly edged with straw- 
yellow and some of the feathers with sub marginal blue lines ; inner lesser 
upper coverts blackish, the marginal ones becoming much paler blue on 
the outer median and greater coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, primary 
and secondary quills dark brown, the outer webs dull dark blue, a white spot on 
the inner webs of the secondary quills ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
pale lemon yellow like the crown of head, nape, hinder face, sides of neck, fore- 
neck and entire under surface ; the middle tail-feathers bronze-green becoming 
dark blue towards the tips, the outer feathers dark brown on the inner webs and 
dark blue on the outer ones fading into very pale blue towards the tips which are 
almost white ; base of forehead red, the feathers in front and below the eye 
tinged with orange-red, the feathers on the head and sides of the face have dark 
narrow edgings which are coarser and less conspicuous on the breast ; cheeks 
* The plate is lettered Platycercus innominatus. 
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