Order PSITTA Cl FORMES. 
Family PLATYGERCID M 
No. 357. 
PLATYCERCUS VENUSTUS. 
SMUTTY PARROT. 
(Plate 305.)* 
Psittacus VENUSTUS Kuhl, Nova Acta Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 52, 1820 : 
“ Nova Hollandia ” = Arnhem Bay, Northern Territory. 
Psittacus venustus Kuhl, Nova Acta Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 52, 1820. 
Psittacus brownii (not of Kuhl 1820) Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond ), Vol. XIII., 
p. 119, 1821 : Arnhem Bay, Northern Territory ; Donovan, Naturalists’ Repository, 
Vol. II , pi. 61, 1824. 
Platyc-ercus brownii Vigors, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 528, 1825 ; Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. 
Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 120, 1826 ; Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
(Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 282, 1827 ; Lear, Illustr. Psittac., pt. iv., Feb. 1, 1831 ; 
Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvi. (Vol. V., pi 31), 1844 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1863, p. 232 ; Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 198, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 118 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 16, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 60, 
1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 549, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 65, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr, Birds, Vol. II., p. 634, 1901 ; 
Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 93, 1902 (N.T.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., 
p. 213, 1905 (N.T.) ; Hall, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 25, 1907 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, 
Hand! Birds Austral., p. 49, 1908 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 270, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; 
Campbell, ib., p., 339, North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 126, 1911 ; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 157, 1914 (N.T.) ; Barnard, ib., XIV., p. 46, 
1914 (N.T.). 
Platycercus venustus Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissensch. Munch., Vol. I., p. 529, 1832 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 53, 1865; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 274, 1878 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVII., p. 500, 1910. 
Platycercus venustus hilli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 28, 1910 ; 
Napier Broome Bay, North-West Australia ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 272, 
1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 132, 1913. 
* The Plate is lettered Platycercus venustw and P. hilli. 
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