Order PSITTAGIFORMES. Family PLATYCERCIDM 
No. 361. 
PURPUREICEPHALUS SPURIUS. 
RED-CAPPED PARROT. 
(Plate 309.) 
Psittacus SPURIUS Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 52, 1820 : 
Nova Hollandia ” = Albany, South-west Australia. 
Psittacus spurius Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 52, 1820 ; Wagler, 
Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch., Vol. I., p. 741, 1832 ; Pucheran, Rev. Mag. de ZooL, 
1853, p. 158. 
Platycercus pileatus Vigors, Zool. Journ., Vol. V., p. 274, June, 1830 : Albany ; Lear, 
Illustr. Psittac., pt. n., Nov. 1, 1830 : pt. xn., 1832 ; Jardine and Selby, Illustr. 
Omith., Vol. II., pi. 102, Dec., 1830 ; Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch., 
Vol. I., pp. 491, 528, 703, 1832 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xix. (Vol. V., pi. 32), 1845. 
Platycercus rufifrons Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 208, July, 1830 : Albany, South-west 
Australia ; Pucheran, Rev. Mag. de Zool., 1853, p. 158 ; Hartlaub, Journ. fur Ora., 
1855, p. 422. 
Psittacus purpureocephalus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol. Zool., Vol. I., p. 235, 
pl* xxn., 1830 : King George’s Sound = Albany, South-west Australia. 
Platycercus purpureocephalus Lesson, Compl. de Buff, Vol. IX., Ois., p. 221, 1837. 
Pur pur eicephalus pileatus Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 153 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 60, 1865 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 259, 1890. 
Psittacus purpureocapillus Z. Gerbe, Diet. Univ. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. IX., p. 641, 1861 
(error for purpureocephalus). 
Platycercus spurius Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 201, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Dinn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 125; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittac., p. 67, 1891. 
P or phyr eicephalus spurius Reiohenow, Vogelbild. Syst. Verz., p. 1, 1883. 
Porphyrocephalus spurius Heine and Reichenow, Nomenel. Mus. Hein, p. 241, 1890 ; 
Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 556, 1891; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 65, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 639, 1901 ; Hall, 
Ibis, 1902, p. 194 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 75, 1902 ; id., ib ., Vol. III., p. 19, 1903 ; 
Nicholls, ib., Vol. V., p. 81, 1905; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 49, 1908; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1910, p. 163; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. X., p. 313, 1911 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 442, 1914. 
Purpureicephcdus spurius Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVNL, p. 275, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 135, 1913. 
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