YELLOW-CHEEKED PARROT. 
My present consideration of the species leads to results somewhat in 
agreement with the remarks of Milligan and Whitlock, and also explanatory of 
the diverse opinions hitherto proposed. 
Kuhl described P. icterotis without locality and attributed the species 
name to “ Temm. et Kuhl,” and gave as places where he had seen specimens 
“ In Museo Temminkiano, Parisiensi 2.” The specimen in Temminck’s 
Museum is obviously the type, and when simultaneously Temminck described 
the species under the same name, he stated : “Cette espece nouvelle nefait point 
partie du cabinet de la Societie, elle se trouve dans ma collection. . . . Cette 
espece est des environs de Port Jackson a la cote orientale de la Nouvelle 
Hollande.” The latter locality is quite wrong, but in the Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus ., Vol. XX., p. 555, 1891, Salvadori catalogued 
“ d. Ad. sk. Australia ? Linnean Society [P.]. 
(Type of species).” 
This blunder, on the part of such an accurate worker as Count Salvadori, 
has commonly caused the acceptance of the British Museum specimen as the 
type, which it certainly is not. 
From the description given by Kuhl the specimen in the Temminck 
Museum was a coastal bird, and it very probably came from Albany or there- 
abouts. I therefore determine this as the type-locality of Kuhl’s species 
especially as normal birds, such as I named P. i. salvadori , from that locality 
agree well with Kuhl and Temminck’s descriptions. 
The type locahty of P. xanthogenys Salvadori is also unknown, but as the 
specimen was from the Gould collection and in 1865 Gould wrote : “ The colony 
of Swan River in Western Australia being the only locahty in which it has yet 
been seen in a state of nature,” we can fix that with some degree of certainty. 
We know that he got birds from the interior beyond York and moreover he 
wrote “ feathers of the back black, bordered with green, yellow, and in some 
instances scarlet.” This indicates that he did not separate the scarlet backed 
birds from the green backed, but considered them simply older birds. There 
can be little doubt then that the bird which Salvadori called P. xanthogenys 
was one of the scarlet backed birds received by Gould from beyond York, 
that is, leading towards the Southern Cross locahty whence Ogilvie-Grant 
recorded Salvadori’s species. It will be remembered that the variation in 
P. icterotis was commented upon by that writer, who noted one specimen was 
varying towards xanthogenys. The series Ogilvie-Grant studied, showed that 
a bird from Southern Cross very closely agreed in detail with the type of 
xanthogenys and at the same place had been collected three other specimens 
showing that the greyish-green coloration was taken on in the nestling phase, 
and that a very immature bird had the feathers of the back black with grey 
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