THE BIRDS OP AUSTRALIA. 
and flight- quills blackish margined with blue or greenish-blue on the outer 
webs, some of the flight-quills marked with white at the base on the inner webs ; 
abdomen, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts greyish-green ; the feathers on 
the abdomen and lower flanks red, white at the base and fringed with white at 
the tips ; greater series of under wing-coverts and under-surface of flight-quills 
blackish-brown, some of the latter marked with white ; lower aspect of tail blue at 
the base, white subterminally, and black at the tip. Total length 246 mm. ; 
culmen 15, wing 111, tail 131, tarsus 14. Figured. 
Macgillivray recorded in the Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 189, 1918, Psephotus 
chrysopterygius, Golden -shouldered Parrot. On the 14th April, 1915, Mr. 
M’Lennan made the following notes when on the Watson River : “On 
reaching the river a pair of strange Parakeets was flushed from a thin 
fringe of mangroves ; they flew off up the river and disappeared in a 
big patch of mangrove. I followed and searched for about an hour, but 
did not see them. Returning along the edge of the mangrove, I saw 
one of the Parakeets flying in from the plain. It alighted in the man- 
groves, and I managed to secure it.” 
This serves to introduce one of the most important discoveries that 
Messrs. Macgillivray and Maclennan have made, namely, the recognition 
that the Golden-shouldered Parrot is not yet extinct, as feared when 
I wrote my last volume. Dr. Macgillivray mentioned this item to me 
when visiting me recently, and, moreover, wrote to Australia, had the 
specimen forwarded and presented it to me. From this bird I have 
had the accompanying plate prepared, and have reinstated the bird 
as a species distinct from P. dissimilis, which I had united to it in the 
preceding volume. 
As the species was rediscovered at some distance from the type 
locality, I compared my specimens with the unique types, and found good 
subspecific differences, though only a few specimens were available. My 
birds show a much more extensive yellow fore-head, while the sides of 
the face are greenish not as blue as in the type ; the breast also being 
greenish, not clear blue, while the black cap extends further on the 
nape : the greater secondary-coverts have the outermost sandy-grey, whereas 
they are blue in the t 5 q)e, the inner only sandy edged with blue ; the 
primary-coverts blacker, the primary edgings lighter. The plate will 
show the distinctions from the Black-hooded Parrot, the only available 
specimens being the types which are rough, unmade skins in which it 
is difficult to determine the valid features. 
NoRTHIPSITTA ALEXANDRA, Vol. VI., p. 271, pi. 297. 
The Marquess of Tavistock, writmg of these birds in captivity, says that 
the male has a lilac -blue crown, a purplish-blue rump, and the pale green 
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