Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 374. 
Family PLATYGERCIDM. 
LATHAMUS DISCOLOR. 
SWIFT-PARROT. 
(Plate 321.) 
Psittacus discolor White, Journal Voy. New South Wales, p. 263, and pi. opposite, 
1790 : New South Wales. 
Red-shouldered Parrakeet Phillips, Voy. Botany Bay, p. 269 and plate, 1789. 
Psittacus discolor White, Journ. Voy. New South Wales, p. 263 and plate, 1790 ; Latham, 
Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxi., 1801 ; Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 82, 1811 ; 
Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXV., p. 346, 1818 ; Kuhl, Nov. Act. 
Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 48, 1820 ; Swainson, Zool. Illustr., Ser. I., pi. 62, 
1821. 
Psittacus sanguinolentus Kerr, Animal Kingdom, p. 585, 1792 (based on Phillips, plate 
opposite p. 269) : New South Wales. 
Psittacus lathami (not Temminck 1807) Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 81, pi. 8 (based 
on pi. 62, Levaill, Perroq.) : New South Wales. 
Psittacus humeralis Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 85, pi. 12 (based on pi. 50, Levaill’s 
Perroq.) : New South Wales; Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., 
p. 47, 1820. 
Psittacus bariksianus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXV., p. 342, 1818 : (based 
on Levaill, pi. 50) : New South Wales. 
Psittacus australis Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 48, 1820 ; ex. 
Brown MS. (not of Gmelin 1788 nor Latham 1790), Tasmania (New South Wales 
is incorrect). 
Nanodes discolor Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 118, 1826; Vigors 
and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 276, 1827 ; Lesson, Manuel 
d’ Ornith., Vol. II., p. 147, 1828; Selby, Naturalist’s Library Parrots, pp. 170, 177, 
1836 ; Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, p. 39 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XX., p. 592, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 68, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 655, 1901 ; Littler, Emu, Vol. II., p. 170, 1903 
(Tas.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 13, 1907 (Tas.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 99, 
1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 166, 1911. 
Trichoglossus . ? australis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i, p. 130, 1826. 
Laihamus rubrifrons Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 205, 1830 : New name for Nanodes 
discolor V. & H. 
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