Order PS ITT A Cl FOR MISS. 
No. 372. 
Family PLATTCERGIDJE. 
NEOPHEMA PULCHELLA. 
RED-SHOULDERED GRASS PARROT. 
(Plate 319.) 
Psittacfs pulchellus Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. III., pi. 96, 
March 1st, 1792 : New South Wales. 
Psittacus 'pulchellus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. III., pi. 96, 1792 ; Latham, 
Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxi., 1801 ; Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, 
Vol. X., p. 50, 1820 ; Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 122, 1821, 
Psittacus edwardsii Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 74, 1811 : New South Wales. 
Nanodes pulchellus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 118, 1826 ; Vigors 
and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 277, 1827. 
Lathamus azureus Lesson, Traite d’ Ornith, p. 205, 1830 : New South Wales. 
Euphema pulchella Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissensch. Munch., Vol. I., pp. 493, 542, 706, 
1832 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ix. (Vol. V., pi. 41), 1844 ; id ., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 77, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 332 ; Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., 
p. 161, 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; Reichenow, 
Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 48 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 17, 1888 : North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 263, 1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 78, 1891 ; 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 167, 1915. 
Lathamus pulchellus Lesson, Compl. de Buff, Vol. IX., Ois., p. 216, 1837. 
Psephotus pulchellus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1860, p. 243 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 278, 1912. 
Neophema pulchella Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 575, 1891 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 67, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 654, 
1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 51, 1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, Vol. III., p. 163, 1911 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 138, 1913. 
Neophema pulchella dombraini Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 128, Jan. 28, 1915 : 
Southern Victoria. 
Neophema pulchella pulchella Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above dull green including the nape, hind-neck, entire back, 
scapulars, innermost secondaries, upper tail-coverts, and middle tail-feathers, the 
bases of the feathers on the hind-neck are white, which forms an obscured patch ; 
fore-head, sides of crown, lores, sides of face, lesser and outer median upper wing- 
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