Order PSITTACIFORMES. Family PL A T Y CERGI DAS. 
No. 363. 
PSEPHOTUS VARIUS. 
MANY-COLOURED PARROT. 
(Plate 311.) 
Psephotus VARIUS Clark, Auk, Vol. XXVII., p. 80, 1910 : New name for P. multicolor 
Kuhl : Spencer’s Gulf, South Australia (New South Wales was an error). 
Psittacus multicolor (not of Gmelin 1788) Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, 
Vol. X., p. 55, 1820 (ex Brown MS.), Nova Hollandia = Spencer’s Gulf, South 
Australia; Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 119, 1821. 
Platycercus multicolor Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 124, 1826 ; 
Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 283, 1827; Wagler, 
Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch., Vol. X., pp. 491, 528, 703, 1832; Finsch, Die 
Papageien, Vol. II., p. 222, 1868; Reichenow, Joum. fur Orn. 1881, p. 115. 
Psephotus multicolor G ould, Birds Austr., pt. xxvin. (Vol. V.,pl. 35), 1847 ; *d.,Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 68, 1865 ; Diggles, Omith. Austr., pt. i„ 1866 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 
1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 261, 1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. 
Psittac., p. 73, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 566, 1891 ; 
North, Rep. Horn Sci. Exped. Centr. Zool., p. 63, 1896 (Centr.) ; id., Trans. 
Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 170, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 67, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 647, 1901 ; 
Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 172, 1904 (N.W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., p. 225 (S.W;A.) ; 
S. A. White, ib., Vol. V., p. 182, 1906 (S.A.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. VII., p. 22, 1907 (Vic.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 50, 1908 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1910, p. 160 
(W.A.) ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 131, 1910 (S.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 192 (W.A.) ; 
MacgiUivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 25/95, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 146, 1911 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 24, 1913 
(S.A.) ; Chandler, ib., p. 36 (Vic.) ; Howe and Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 81, 
1914 (Vic.). 
Euphema multicolor Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas. Psitt., p. 100, 1864. 
Psephotus varius Clark, Auk, Vol. XXVII., p. 80, 1910. 
Psephotus dulciei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 14, June, 1911 : New name for 
P. multicolor Kuhl. 
Psephotus varius varius Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 276, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 135, 1913. 
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