Order PSITTA Cl FORM ES. Family PL A T Y CERCI DJE. 
No. 358. 
PLATYCERCUS EXIMIUS. 
ROSELLA. 
(Plate 306.)* 
Psittacus eximius Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. III., pi. 93, Feb. 1, 1792: 
New South Wales. 
Psittacus eximius Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. III., pi. 93, 1792 ; Shaw, 
Zool., New Holland, pi. 1, 1794; Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxi., 1801; 
Kuhl, Nova Acta Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 64, 1820. 
Psittacus nonpareil Perry, Arcana, pi. 9, March, 1810 : New South Wales. 
Psittacus omnicolor Bechstein, Kurze Uebers Vogel, p. 68, 1811, pi. 2 : New South Wales. 
Psittacus capitatus Shaw, Gen., Zool., Vol. VIII., Pt. II., p. 466, 1812 : New South 
Wales ; Kuhl, Nova Acta Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 100, 1820. 
Platycercus eximius 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. 281, 1827 ; Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissensch. Munch., Vol. I., 
pp. 491, 530, 704, 1832 ; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pi. 24, 1837 ; id.. Birds 
Austr., pt. xxn. (Vol. V., pi. 27), 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 55, 
1865 ; Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 190, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Ornith., 1881, p. 120 ; 
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. Psittaci, p. 61, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 651, 
1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 65, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 635, 1901 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. II., p. 165, 1903 (Vic.) ; Littler, id., p. 170 
(Tas.) ; Fletcher, id., Vol. III., p. 109, 1903 (Tas.) ; Littler, id., p. 215, 1904 (Tas.) ; 
A. G. Campbell, id., Vol. V., p. 145, 1906 (K’goo I.) ; Morgan, id,, p. 224 (re K’goo 
I. record) ; Batey, id., Vol. VII., p. 12, 1907 (Vic.) ; Austin, id., p. 75 (N.S.W.) ; 
Batey, id., p. 95 (N.S.W.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 49, 1908; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 95, 1910 (Tas.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec., Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. III., p. 127, 1911 ; Chandler, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 36, 1913 (Vic.) 
Platycercus omnicolor Lesson, Compl. de Buff., Vol. IX., Ois., p. 220, 1837. 
Platycercus splendidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 105 : Darling Downs 
“ N.S.W.” = Queensland hodie (not P. splendidus Shaw 1792) ; id., Birds Austr., 
The plate ia lettered Platycercm aplendidw. 
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