Order PS ITT A CIFORMES. 
No. 376. 
Family PEZOPORIDJE. 
PEZOPORUS WALLICUS. 
GROUND PARROT. 
(Plate 323.)* 
Psittacus wallicus Kerr, Animal Kingdom, p. 581, 1792 (Feb.) : New South Wales. 
Psittacus formosus (not Scopoli 1769) Latham, Index Omith., Vol. I., p. 103, 1790 : New 
South Wales ; Kuhl., Nov. Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol, Vol. X., p. 43, 1820. 
Psittacus wallicus Kerr, Animal Kingdom, p. 581, 1792 : New name for P. formosus Latham 
preoccupied. 
Psittacus terrestris Shaw, Museum Leverianum, pt. v., p. 217, pi. 5, Feb. 14, 1793 : New 
name for P. formosus Latham preoccupied; id., Zool., New Holland, pi. 3, 1794; 
Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. VII., pi. 228, 1796 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. 
Vol. VIII., p. 454, pi. 66, 1811. 
Black-spotted Parrakeet. 
Psittacus viridis (not Latham 1790) Perry, Arcana, pi. 11, March 1st, 1810 : New South 
Wales, 
Pezoporus formosus Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. et Av., p. 201, 1811 ; Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. 
Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 126, 1826; Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
(Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 285, 1827 ; Wagler, Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch., Vol. I., 
pp. 490, 520, 700, 1832 ; Selby, Naturalist’s Library, Parrots, p. 183, pi. 29, 1836 ; 
Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvm. (Vol. V., pi. 46), 1845 ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Centr. 
Austr., Vol. II., App. p. 41, 1849 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 86, 1865 ; 
Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xvi., 1868 ; Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. II., p. 148, 
1868 ; Murie, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 159 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 194, 1878 ; Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 16 ; Legge, 
Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 238, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 17, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 265, 1890 ; Ramsay, Cat. 
Austr. Psitt., p. 88, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 596, 1891 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 68, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 658, 1901 ; M‘Clymont, Emu, Vol. II., p. 98, 1902 (Tas.) ; Littler, ib., 
p. 170, 1903 (Tas.) ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. VIII., p. 79, 1908 (Tas.) ; A. J. C(ampbell), 
ib., Vol. IX., p. 69, 1909 (Vic.). 
Pezoporus terrestris Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., Vol. III., pt. n, p. 72, pi. v., f. 5, 1821 ; 
Lesson, Traite d’ Ornith, p. 206, pi. xix., f. 2, 1830 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, 
* The plate is lettered Pezoporus terrestris, 
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