MALLEE PARROT. 
Breeding-season. September to December. 
Adult male. General colour bright bluish-green with an infusion of yellow including the 
crown of the head, upper wing-coverts, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 
sides of the face, throat, breast, lower flanks, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 
coverts ; lesser upper wing-coverts, and under wing-coverts ; lesser upper wing- 
coverts and bend of wing turquoise-blue ; the outer, median and greater coverts 
cobalt-blue ; outer webs of the bastard-wing, primary-coverts and primary-quills 
deep blue, the inner webs blackish becoming paler at the tips of the last, on which 
portion the outer webs are bluish-grey including the entire outer web of the first 
primary ; middle tail-feathers bronze-green, becoming darker and more or less 
blue at the tips, the outer feathers green at the base, dark brown on the inner 
webs, followed by dark blue and cobalt-blue on the apical portions ; a collar on 
the hind-neck lemon-yellow ; nape and behind the eye somewhat darker than the 
crown ; fore part of cheeks, the feathers on the sides of the throat, axillaries and 
under wing-coverts turquoise blue ; lower breast, abdomen, and sides of the body 
bright yellow ; greater series of under wing-coverts and quills below dark brown ; 
lower aspect of tail dark brown on the middle feathers and pale iridescent blue 
on the outer ones. Bill bluish white ; eyes dark brown ; feet pale leaden. Total 
length 250 mm., culmen 18, wing 157, tail 197, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected 
at Cloncurry, North Queensland, on the 6th of June, 1910, and is Platycercus 
barnardi macgillivrayi (North). 
Adult females from the same locality are similar. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch four to six. White. 28-31 mm. by 23-25. 
Breeding -season. August to December. 
As this species is not a coastal bird it was not described until 1827, when 
Vigors and Horsfield named it Platycercus barnardi , taking the name from 
Latham’s manuscript and acknowledging it as of Latham. The account 
given is cut short after the description, no record is given from whence the 
specimen came being attached as was the custom of these authors. We do 
not know who collected it, as it was not named in honour of its discoverer. 
As Kuhl and Temminck do not mention it, we may conclude it was 
presented between 1820 and 1826. 
Gould’s notes read : “ To see Barnard’s Parrakeet in perfection, and to 
observe its rich plumage in all its glory, the native country of the bird must 
be visited, its brooks and streamlets traced ; for it is principally on the banks 
of the latter, either among the 4 high-flooded gums ’ or the larger shrub-like 
trees along the edges of the water that this beautiful species is seen, and 
where the brilliant hues of its expanded wings and tail show very conspicuously 
as it passes from tree to tree amidst the dark masses of foliage. The range 
of Barnard’s Parrakeet extends throughout the interior from South Australia 
to New South Wales, but it seldom appears within the boundary of the latter 
colony ; I never met with it nearer than the Liverpool Plains, from which 
northwards towards the interior its numbers increased, and it doubtless 
inhabits the banks of the Darling and all other rivers which disembogue into 
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