Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 368. 
Family PLA T Y CERCIDM. 
NEONANODES CHRYSOGASTER. 
ORANGE-BELLIED PARROT. 
(Plate 316, upper figure.) 
Psittacus CHRYSOGASTER Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 97, 1790 : Hab. ? = Tasmania. 
Orange-bellied Parrot Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. I., p. 62, 1787. 
Psittacus chrysogaster Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 97, 1790. 
Euph&ma aurantia Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 148, 1841 : Tasmania ; 
id., Birds Austr., pt. n. (Vol. V., pi. 39), 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
p. 75, 1865 ; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. vn., 1866. 
Nanodes gouldii Ewing, Tasm. Jour. Nat. Sci., Vol. I., pt. l, p. 54, 1841, n.n. 
Euphema * chrysogaster f Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 154; Einseh, Die Papage., 
Vol. II., p. 168, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; 
Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 47 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, 
p. 238, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. 
Psittaci, p. 82, 1891. 
Neophema chrysogastra Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 573, 1891 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 67, 1899 : Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 652, 1901 ; Mathews, Handb Birds Austral, p. 50, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds 
Tasm., p. 97, 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 159, 1911. 
Psephotus chrysogaster chrysogaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 278, 1912. 
Psephotus chrysogaster mab Mathews, ib., Port Adelaide, South Australia. 
Neonanodes chrysogaster chrysogaster Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 137, 1913. 
Neonanodes chrysogaster rmb Mathews, ib., p. 138. 
Distribution. Tasmania ; Victoria ; New South Wales ; South Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface grass green : lesser upper wing-coverts 
round the bend of the wing, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, outer greater coverts, 
and outer aspect of the primary- and secondary-quills ultramarine blue becoming 
paler on the outer margins of the primaries towards the tips, the remaining portion 
of the quills blackish-brown, the outer-webs and tips of the innermost secondaries 
green like the back ; middle tail-feathers green at the base with pale blue on the 
margins and at the tips, the outer feathers yellow on the terminal portions, which 
increases in extent till the outer pair are almost all yellow ; crown of head somewhat 
paler than the back with a narrow frontal band of blue which extends to above 
the eye, where it is much paler and inclining to green ; hinder face and sides of the 
* Also spelt Euphemia, 
| Also spelt chrysogqftlra. 
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