Genus— P SEPHOTELLUS. 
Psephotellus Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., 
p. 57, 1913 . . . - . . . . . . Type P. pulcherrimus. 
Small Platycercine birds with short bills, long wings, very long tails, and small, 
delicate feet. 
The bill is small, well hooked, with a sharp tip and the succeeding notch 
generally well marked, the edge following sinuate : the under mandible broad, 
with the edges sinuate. Cere as in the preceding genera. 
The wing is long, with the primaries rounded at the tip ; the first primary is 
longer than the fifth but shorter than the fourth, which is a little less than the 
second and third, which are subequal and longest; the first primary is not 
scalloped on the outer edge but the four succeeding are. 
The tail is very long and wedge shaped, the two middle feathers longest, 
the feathers comparatively broader than in the preceding genera, while the 
tail itself is comparatively longer. 
The feet are normal, small and delicate. 
The two species admitted in this genus are differentiated at sight by their 
different style of coloration and the longer broad-feathered tails. 
They have the most northern range of any of the small Parrakeets, but 
nothing like them occurs in the islands to the North of Australia. \\ 
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