Order PSITTA Cl FORMES. 
No. 366. 
Family PLATYCERCIDM. 
PSEPHOTELLUS CHRYSOPTERYGIUS. 
GOLDEN-SHOULDERED PARROT. 
(Plate 314.)* 
Psephotus chrysopterygius Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1857, p. 220, 1858 
(Normanton). Interior Gulf of Carpentaria. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1857, p. 220, 1858 ; id., Birds 
Austr. Suppl., pt. in. (pi. 64), 1859 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 65, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 71, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 565, 1891 ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. III., p. 87, 1898 ; 
Phillipps, Avicult. Mag., Vol. IV., p. 152, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 66, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 646, 1901 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral, p. 50, 1908 ; id., Avicult. Mag., Ser. 3, Vol. IV., p. 151, 1913. 
Platycercus chrysopterygius G. R. Gray, List Specs. Brit. Mus. Psittaci, p. 6, 1859 ; Finsch, 
Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 224, 1868 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 116. 
Psephotus dissimilis Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1898, p. 356 : Mary River, Arnhem 
Land, North Australia ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 66, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 647, 1901 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 214, 
1905 (N.T.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 50, 1908 ; North, Viet. Naturalist, 
Vol. XXV., p. 176, 1909 (N.T.) ; [Editors] Emu, Vol. IX., p. 46, 1909 ; Mathews, 
BuU. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXI.’, pp. 55-56, 1913 ; id., Avicult. Mag.^Ser. 3, 
Vol. IV., p. 152, 1913 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 46, 1914 (N.T.). 
Psephotus cucullatus North, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XXV., p. 176, 1909 : Arnhem Land, 
Northern Territory ; Mathews, Avicult. Mag., Ser. 3, Vol. IV., p. 153, 1913. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius blaauwi Van Oort, Notes Leyden Mus., Vol. XXXII., p. 71,' 
1910: Arnhem Land, Northern Territory; Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 303, 
1911; id. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXI., p. 56, 1913; id., Avicult. Mag., 
Ser. 3, Vol. IV., p. 153, 1913. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius chrysopterygius Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 276, 1912. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius dissimilis Mathews, ib. 
Psephotellus chrysopterygius Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 137, 1913. 
Psephotellus dissimilis Mathews, ib. 
* The plate is lettered Psephotellus dissimilis. 
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