Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
Family PLATYCEROIDM. 
No. 365. 
PSEPHOTELLUS PULCHERRIMUS. 
BEAUTIFUL PARROT. 
(Plate 313.) 
Platycercus pulcherrimtjs Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XV., p. 115, 1845: 
Darling Downs, Queensland. 
Platycercus pulcherrimus Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XV., p. 115, 1845 ; Finsch, 
Die Papage., Vol. II., p. 226, 1868; Reichenow, Joum. fur Ora. 1881, p. 116; 
Lumholtz, Among Cannibals, pp. 34, 327, 1887. 
Psephotus pulcherrimus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxh. (Vol. V., pi. 34), 1846 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 67, 1865 ; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. i., 1866 ; Ramsay, 
Proe. 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. 
Psitt., p. 72, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 564, 1891 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 66, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. n., 
p. 645, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 50, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1., Vol. III., p. 144, 1911 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 276, 1912 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 167, 1915. 
Euphemia pulcherrima Sehlegel, De Dierent., p. 75, 1862. 
Psephotellus pulcherrimus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 137, 1913. 
Psephotellus pulcherrimus dubius Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., p. 128, Jan. 28, 
1915 : New South Wales. 
Psephotellus pulcherrimus pulcherrimus Mathews, ib. 
Distribution : Interior South Queensland ; Northern New South Wales. [? Extinct. ] 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape black ; sides of face, sides of hinder crown and 
sides of neck turquoise blue like the rump and upper tail-coverts, some of the last 
edged with black at the tips ; back, scapulars, and outer margins of the innermost 
secondaries earth-brown ; lesser upper wing-coverts vermilion-red ; marginal- 
coverts, bastard-wing, primary- and greater-coverts blackish-brown ; primary- 
and secondary-quills also blackish-brown, the former paler towards the tips and 
greyish-blue along the outer edges ; central tail-feathers bronze green at the base, 
becoming darker towards the tips, the outer feathers pale blue with a black band, 
the long ones white on the apical portion ; forehead red ; the short feathers 
which encircle the eye dull white, minutely dotted with red, fore-neck and breast 
bright emerald-green, inclining to turquoise blue on the upper abdomen, sides of 
the body and axillaries ; lower abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts scarlet with 
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