Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 371. 
Family PLA T Y CERC1 DAS. 
NEONANODES PETROPHILUS. 
ROCK PARROT. 
(Plate 318.) 
Euphema petrophila Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 148, 1841 : Western 
Australia. 
Euphema petrophila Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 148, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xiv. (Vol. V., pi. 40), 1844; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 76, 1865; 
Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 170, 1868; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 47 ; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 83, 1891. 
Neophema petrophila Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 574, 1891 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 67, 1899 ; Campbell, Xests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 652, 
1901 ; Lawson, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 131, 1905 (W.A.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral, 
p. 51, 1908 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 131, 1910 (S.A.) ; Barrett, ib., pp. 133-5, 
pi. xil, 1910 (S.A.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 161, 1911. 
Psephotus petrophilus petrophilus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 278, 1912. 
Psephotus petrophilus zietzi Mathews, ib. : Sir J. Banks Group, Spencer Gulf, S.A. 
Neonanodes petrophilus petrophilus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 138, 1913. 
Neonanodes petrophilus zietzi Mathews, ib. ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 13, 1916 (S.A.). 
Distribution. Coasts of South Australia and West Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above and below yellowish olive-brown including the head, 
entire back, upper wing-coverts, scapulars, innermost secondaries, upper \tail- 
coverts, sides of face, throat, and breast, becoming paler and inclining to yellow 
on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; outer upper wing-coverts pale blue ; 
bastard-wing, primary-coverts, primary and secondary quills blackish with a white 
spot on the inner-webs of some of the inner primaries and paler towards the tips 
of the latter which have also pale narrow edges ; tail bluish-green with dark brown 
on the inner-webs, the outer-feathers yellow on the apical portion — the yellow 
increasing in extent towards the outermost which are almost uniform yellow ; 
base of forehead deep dark blue fringed with pale blue on the posterior margin 
which is continued in a very narrow line over the eye ; lores and fore part of face 
also pale greenish-blue ; under wing-coverts dark blue, narrowly edged with paler 
blue, the greater series and quills below dark brown ; lower aspect of tail dark 
brown on the central feathers and yellow on the outer ones. Bill brown ; eyes 
dark brown; feet brown. Total length 223mm. ; culmen 11, wing 113, tail 110, 
tarsus 16. Figured. Collected at Port Adelaide, South Australia, in March, 1898. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
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