Order PS1TTA Cl FORM ES. Family PL A T Y CEFCIDM, 
No. 367. 
NEOPSEPHOTUS BOURKII. 
BLUE- VENTED P All EOT. 
(Plate 315.) 
Euphema bourkii Gould, Birds Austr., pt. v. (Vol. V., pi. 43), 1841 : River Bogan, 
Interior New South Wales. 
N anodes bourkii Mitchell, Three Exped. East Austr., p. xviii., 1838. Nom. nud. 
Euphema bourkii Gould, Birds Austr., pt. v. (Vol. V., pi. 43), 1841 ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. 
Centr. Austr., App., p. 39, 1849; Gould Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 80, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878; Reichenow, 
Journ. fiir Orn. 1881, p. 46 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 264, 1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 85, 1891. 
Platycercus bourki Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 227, 1868. 
Neophema bourkei Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 570, 1891 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 67, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 649, 
1901 ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. V., p. 268, 1904 (W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 50, 1908; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. X., p. 96, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 153, 1911. 
Psephotus bourkii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 277, 1912. 
Neopsephotus bourkii Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 137, 1913; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. 
XIV., p. 187, 1915 (Centr.) ; id ., Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXXIX., 
p. 746, 1915. 
Neopsephotus bourkii pallida Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., p. 57, 1916 : 
Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia. 
Neopsephotus bourkii bourkii Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Interior New South Wales and South Australia adjoining. Interior 
West Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above earth-brown including the head, hind-neck, entire back, 
scapulars, innermost secondaries, and upper tail-coverts, head and hind-neck 
slightly tinged with vinous and dark edgings to the feathers, scapulars and innermost 
secondaries obscurely edged with greenish -yellow ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
darker than the back and intermixed with pale blue ; median and greater upper 
wing-coverts darker than the back and margined with yellowish -white, the lesser 
coverts edged with dull blue; marginal coverts round the bend of the wing and 
under wing-coverts pale blue ; primary-coverts somewhat darker blue, paler and 
more greenish-blue on the outer-webs of the primary- and secondary-quills, the 
inner-webs dark brown ; middle tail-feathers pale dusky blue brighter on the 
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