YELLOW PARROT. 
“ Sulphur-headed Parrot. Size of the Pennantian Parrot. Head, and 
beneath, pale sulphur yellow ; forehead crimson ; cheeks blue as in the last 
mentioned ; body above pale green ; the middle of the feathers brown ; 
shoulders blue ; quills the same ; tail cuneiform, blue, not differing from the 
Pennantian Parrot ; the two middle feathers green ; bill black, end pale. 
“ The female has the head and breast yellow, mixed with brown ; forehead 
and crown mixed with red ; blue on the cheeks, as in the male. 
“Inhabits New South Wales. In the Museum of the Linnean Society.” 
This is absolutely definite and perfectly applicable, yet Salvadori placed 
it as a doubtful synonym of the Tasmanian bird he called Platycercus 
fiaviventris. 
A peculiar item is the omission by Vigors and Horsfield when they worked 
out the collection of Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society : 
they simply noted : “ It appears to us . . . that the description of the 
Sulphur -headed Parrot (Gen. Hist., p. 133, No. 35) appertains also to the same 
species, i.e., Platycercus fiaviventris Temminck.” They did not state the where- 
abouts of the specimen which had so recently been described from the collection 
they were studying, nor comment upon the discrepancy in the habitat given 
by Latham. 
Little is known of its habits and I have few notes. Thus Captain S. A. 
White has given me the following items : “ Platycercus f. flaveolus. We met 
with these birds in numbers upon the Murrumbidgee at Tubbo : they were 
feeding on the Scotch thistle seed along the river bank in family parties of the 
parent birds and two or three young ones fully fledged. 
Platycercus j. innominatus. This is a common bird along the banks of the 
Murray from Murray River to Overland Corner : they nest in the large gums and 
feed upon grass and rush seeds : also those of the gum trees. I have met with 
these birds in great numbers once or twice, but think it is only at certain times 
of the year that they congregate in this way, for they are generally met with 
in small parties from a pair to eight or ten birds.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby has noted : “ I have always found Platycercus flaveolus 
innominatus common in the large Red Gum ( Eucalyptus rostrata) that grows 
along the banks of the River Murray whenever and wherever I have visited the 
Murray, but I have never seen them in the Mallee and Native Pine ( Callitris ) 
which forms the bulk of the scrub back from the River.” 
Miss Cheney recorded from the Wangaratta District, Victoria (Emu, Vol. 
XV., p. 205, 1915) : “ Before December, 1913, these birds were very rarely 
noted, but in that month they suddenly appeared, and for a time displaced 
Platycercus pennanti in point of numbers. The Yellow Parrot seems to have 
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