Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 354. 
Family PL A T Y CERCIDM. 
PLATYCERCUS CALEDONICUS. 
GREEN PARROT. 
(Plate 302.) 
Psittacus CALEDONICUS Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 328, 1788: “New Caledonia” errore= 
Adventure Bay, South Tasmania. 
Caledonian Parrot Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. I., p. 248, 1781. 
Psittacus caledonicus Gmelin Syst. Nat., p. 328, 1788 ; Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., 
p. 102, 1790. 
Psittacus brownii Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 56, 1820 : 
Derwent, Tasmania. 
Psittacus flavigaster Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 116, 1821 : 
Derwent, Tasmania. 
Psittacus flaviventris Temminck, ib., p. 117 : emendation only. 
Platycercus flavigaster Vigors, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 528, 1825. 
Platycercus xanthogaster Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 120, 1826 : 
emendation only. 
Platycercus flaviventris Vigors and Iiorsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 281, 
1827 ; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pi. 23; id., Birds Austr., pt. xx. (Vol. V., 
pi. 24), 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 48, 1865 ; Diggles, Ornith. 
Austr., pt. in., 1866; Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 204, 1868; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 193, 1878 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 
1881, p. 122 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasm., 1886, p. 238, 1887 ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 16, 1888; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 258, 
1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Psitt., p. 54, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XX., p. 545, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 65, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 633, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 208, 1903 (King Is.) ; Fletcher, ib., III., p. 109, 1903 (Tas.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 49, 1908; Fletcher, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 79, 1908 (Tas.); 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 94, 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
Vol. III., p. 121, 1911 ; Mellor and White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 161, 1913 (Flinders I.). 
Platycercus caledonicus Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch., Vol. I., p. 532, 1832 ; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 14, 1911; id., ib., p. 271, 1912; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 131, 1913. 
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