Order PS1TTACIF0RME8. 
No. 4:22, 
Family PLATYGERCIDJEr 
PSEPHOTELLUS CHRYSOPTERYGIUS. 
GOLDEN-SHOULDERED PARROT. 
(Plate 370.) 
PsEPHOTUS CHRYSOPTERYGIUS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1857, p. 220, 1858 : Interior 
Gulf of Carpentaria = Normanton. 
Psephotellus chryso'pterygius nova Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. Ill,, No. 6, p, 159, June 
25, 1918 ; Watson River, GuK of Carpentaria, North Queensland. 
Cf. Mathews, Birds of Austraha, Vol. VI., p. 425, 1917. 
Adult male. Fore-head, lores, and feathers below the eye pale lemon-yellow, shghtly 
tinged with greenish-blue ; crown of head and nape deep black, becoming paler 
on the hind-neck, where the feathers are fringed with blue ; upper back, scapulars, 
and lesser upper wing-coverts earth-brown ; median upper wing-coverts old-gold- 
yeUow ; bastard-wing black on the inner webs, bluish on the outer ones ; outer 
greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts and flight-quills black fringed 
with blue on the outer webs, the blue becoming paler on the primary-quills 
towards the tips, where the inner webs are also paler ; inner greater coverts 
and innermost secondaries broadly fringed with earth-brown ; sides of hinder- 
crown, sides of neck, cheeks, and sides of throat turquoise-blue hke the fore- 
neck, breast, sides of body, lower back, rump, and upper tail-cov^rts ; chin and 
middle of throat grey ; middle tail-feathers dull dark blue, tinged with bronze, 
and inclining to blackish at the tips, outer feathers pale blue with more or less 
white or whitish on the apical portions, which increases in extent tow'ards the 
middle ones ; abdomen and under tail-coverts scarlet with white bases to the 
feathers and fringed with white at the tips ; under wing-coverts blue, but darker 
than the breast and sides of the body, and becoming paler on the margin of the 
wing, the greater series and under-surface of flight-quills glossy black ; lower 
aspect of tail pale blue at the base, becoming paler and inchning to white sub- 
terminally and blackish at the tips. BiU pale leaden-blue, cutting edge darker ; 
eyes brown; feet fleshy-brown. Total length 275 mm.; culmen 14, wing 119, 
tail 149, tarsus 15. Figured. Collected on Watson’s River, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
North Queensland, on the 14th of Apiil, 1915, and is the type of P. c. nova Mathews. 
Adult female. Crown of head bronze-brown ; hind-neck, back, scapidars, and wings 
dull grass-green like the sides of the face, breast and under tail-coverts ; throat 
grey hke the sides of the face, which is tinged with bronze-green ; lower breast, 
upper abdomen, sides of body and under wing-coverts pale blue ; lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts turquoise-blue ; middle tail-feathers blue with a 
tinge of bronze at the base and becoming blackish at the tips, the outer feathers 
paler blue with blackish outer margins to those nearest the middle and dull white 
at the tips ; bastard-wing, outer greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts, 
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