Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 370. 
Family PLATY CERGI DjE. 
NEONANODES ELEGANS. 
GRASS PARROT. 
(Plate 317.) 
Nanodes elegans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 25 ; “ Tasmania ” error = 
South Australia. 
Nanodes elegans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 25. 
Euphema elegans Gould, Birds Austr. pt. ii. (Vol. V., pi. 38), 1841 ; id. Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 73, 1865 ; Diggles, Omith. Austr., pi. vil, 1866 ; Finsch, Die 
Papageien, Vol. II., p. 165, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 194, 1878 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 46 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 263, 1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. 
Austr. Psittaci, p. 80, 1891. 
Neophema elegans Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 572, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 67, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 651, 1901 ; 
Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 172, 1904 (M.W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, 
p. 51, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. X., p. 313, 1911 (S.W.A.) ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 157, 1911. 
Psephotus elegans elegans Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 277, 1912. 
Peepholes elegans carteri Mathews, ib., p. 278 : Broome Hill, West Australia. 
Neonanodes elegans elegans Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 138, 1913. 
Neonanodes elegans carteri Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia ; West Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above and below yellow, strongly tinged with green on the 
head, hind-neck, rump, upper tail-coverts, and breast, being much more intensified 
on the back, scapulars, inner upper wing-coverts and innermost secondaries ; 
lesser marginal upper wing-coverts dark blue tipped with paler blue like some of 
the outer median and greater series, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, primary and 
secondary quills black with more or less deep blue on the outer aspect, the outer 
edges of the primaries towards the tips inclining to greenish-blue ; the two middle 
tail-feathers greenish-blue becoming darker and more blue towards the tips, the 
outer ones yellow with more or less blue at the base — the blue increasing in extent 
towards the central feathers ; a narrow band of deep blue across the forehead edged 
with bright blue on the hinder margin and extending in a very narrow line over 
and terminating at the base of the eye ; lores, fore-part of cheeks, throat, abdomen, 
and thighs golden yellow, under tail-coverts and lower aspect of tail bright yellow, 
the central feathers of the latter pale brown ; sides of the body like the breast ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts deep dark blue, the greater series of the latter 
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