Genus — N EOPSEPHOTUS. 
Neopsephotus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 279, 
1912 
Type N. bourlcii. 
Small Platycercine birds with very small bills, long wings with the primaries 
unscalloped, medium wedge-tails and small feet. 
The peculiar coloration differentiates this genus at sight, and when 
critically examined its structure is just as peculiar. It was placed by Gould 
and Salvadori with the succeeding species where it is absolutely incorrectly 
associated. 
The bill is very small, not projecting, but rapidly descending, the tip 
blunt and spatulate, the edges of the upper mandible sinuate but no notch 
present : the nostrils as small circular holes surrounded by swollen cere and 
placed close together opening upwards : under mandible small and blunt 
tipped. 
The wing has the second and third primaries longest and equal, the first 
attenuate and pointed and longer than the fourth : none of the primaries 
are scalloped either on the outer or inner web. 
The tail is medium for this group, being exceeded by the length of the 
wing : the feathers are broad, the middle four equal and the others slightly 
graduated. 
It recalls true Platycercus in many respects 
only divided these Parrots into Platycercus 
species in the former genus. 
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