CRIMSON-BELLIED PARROT. 
Platycercus xanthorrhous Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 217, 1868. 
Platycercus hcematorrhous Reichenow, Vogelbild. Syst. Verz., p. 1, 1883. 
Psephotus hcematog aster var. xanthorrhous Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 260, 1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Psittaoi, p. 70, 
1891. 
Psephotus xanthorrhous var. pallescens Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Yol. XX., p. 663, 
1891 : Cooper’s Creek, Interior South Australia. 
Psephotus pallescens Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 66, 1899 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral, 
p. 50, 1908 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 24, 1913 (S.A.). 
Psephotus hcematogaster hcematogaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 275, 1912. 
Psephotus hcematogaster xanthorrhous Mathews, ib. 
Psephotus hcematogaster pallescens Mathews, ib ., p. 276. 
Psephotus hcematogaster alter Mathews, ib., p. 275 : Mutton, Victoria. 
Northiella hcematogaster hcematogaster Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 136, 1913. 
Northiella hcematogaster xanthorrhoa Mathews, ib. 
Northiella hcematogaster alter Mathews, ib. 
Northiella hcematogaster pallescens Mathews, ib. 
Northiella hcematogaster zanda Mathews, Austral Avian Record., Vol. II., p. 75, Dec. 29, 
1913 : Moree, New South Wales. 
Distribution. Interior South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South 
Australia. 
Adult male. General colour for the most part dusky-grey, including the hinder crown, 
neck all round and breast, entire back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts with a 
very faint wash of green on the upper surface and pale central streaks to the 
feathers on the ear-coverts, fore-neck, and throat ; upper wing-coverts dark 
golden-bronze becoming much paler on the greater series and innermost secondaries, 
the upper tail-coverts are also tinged with the latter colour, the small marginal 
wing-coverts and bend of wing bright blue ; bastard-wing, outer greater coverts, 
primary-coverts, primary- and secondary-quills deep blue on the outer aspect 
and dark brown on the inner-webs, the outer edges of the primaries greyish-blue 
towards the tips ; middle tail-feathers bronze-green with a bluish shade and 
becoming dark brown at the tips, the outer feathers blue at the base, broadly tipped 
with white, and more or less dark brown on the inner-webs ; fore part of head 
and fore part of face blue becoming much fainter on the chin ; lower breast, sides 
of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts pale lemon-yellow ; middle of abdomen 
scarlet-red with pale edges to the feathers ; under wing-coverts ultramarine blue, 
the greater series and quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail, middle feathers 
dark brown, the outer ones for the most part white. Bill horn colour ; eyes brown ; 
feet blackish. Total length 250 mm. ; culmen 16, wing 143, tail 191, tarsus 20. 
Figured. Collected at Muttoa, Victoria, in June, 1906, and is the type of 
Psephotus hcematogaster alter. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. Hind neck, entire back, scapulars, innermost secondaries, upper tail-coverts, 
fore-neck, and breast pale earth-brown ; hinder crown of head rust-brown ; 
marginal upper wing-coverts and bend of wing cobalt-blue ; an oblique patch of 
crimson-red across the median upper wing- coverts which fades out on the greater 
coverts and becomes more or less like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts 
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