THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
the species he had examined, simply writing “ Psephotus From skin features 
the species P. hminatogaster differs appreciably from P. hcematonotus and a 
careful osteological comparison of these two alone would be valuable, while 
P. c. dissimilis should be examined osteologically while specimens are available 
and before it becomes extinct like its congener P. pulcherrimus. 
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