Order PSITTAC1F0RMES. 
No. 373. 
Family PLATYGEROIDM. 
NEOPHEMA SPLENDIDA. 
SCARLET-CHESTED GRASS PARROT. 
(Plate 320.) 
Euphema SPLENDIDA Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 147, 1841 : West Australia. 
Euphema splendida Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 147, 1841 ; id ., Birds Austr., 
pt. n. (Vol. V., pi. 42), 1841 ; id ., pt. xxix. (Vol. V., pi. 42a), 1847 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 79, 1865; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xm., 1867 ; Finsch, 
Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 159, 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 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 84, 1891. 
Neophema, splendida Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 576, 1891 ; North, 
Ibis, 1894, p. 260 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 68, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. II., pp. 654, 1081, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 51, 
1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 164, 1911; Mathews, 
List Birds Austr., p. 139, 1913. 
Psephotus splendidus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 279, 1912. 
Neophema splendida halli Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., p. 57, Apl. 7, 1916 : 
South Australia. 
Neophema splendida splendida Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia ; West Australia. 
Adult male. Entire back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, inner greater upper wing- 
coverts, innermost secondaries, on the upper surface, and the sides of the breast 
and sides of the body, below, grass-green ; lesser, median, and outer greater upper 
wing-coverts pale blue ; bastard-wing blackish tinged with blue on the outer- 
webs ; edge of the wing rather palei blue ; primary-coverts, primary- and secondary- 
quills blackish with the outer edges of the primaries and outer- webs of the secondaries 
greenish-blue ; middle tail-feathers green, the outer one for the most part yellow 
with dark shaft-lines and dark brown on the inner-webs ; crown of head and sides 
of the face bright cobalt-blue becoming deeper in colour on the cheeks and throat ; 
fore-neck and middle of breast deep red ; abdomen, thighs, lower flanks, and under 
tail-coverts orange-yellow ; under wing-coverts dark blue paler on the outer margins, 
the greater series and quills below blackish ; lower aspect of tail yellow on the 
lateral feathers and dark brown on the central ones. Bill blackish-horn, eyes 
brown, feet flesh. Total length 225 mm. ; culmen 11 wing 115, tail 100, tarsus 13. 
Figured. Collected in South-west Australia. 
Adult female. Differs from the male in having the red patch on the fore-neck and middle 
of breast replaced by green and the other colours duller. The female of this bird 
is very similar to that of pulchella, but differs in having blue lores and the blue 
wing-patch lighter. 
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