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Platycercus venustus melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Bee. vol. i. p. 36, 
April 2nd, 1912 : Melville Island. 
Distr. —North-West Australia and Northern Territory. 
Platycercus eximius (Shaw). 
Distr. —South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and 
Tasmania. 
Platycercus eximius eximius (Shaw). (20-551.) 
Psittacus eximius Shaw & Nodder, Nat. Miscell. vol. in. pi. 93, 
Feb. 1st, 1792: New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, v. pi. 27.) 
Psittacus nonpareil Perry, Arcana, pt. 3, pi. 9, March 1810: Now South Wales 
Psittacus omnicolor Bechstein, Kurzo Uebers. Vogel, p. 68, pi. 2 (pref. April 12th, 
1810), 1811 : New South Wales. Not Lichtenstein, Cat. Kerum Nat. Bariss. 
p. 5, 1793. 
Paittacus capitatus Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. viii. pt. 2, p. 4G6, before May 1812: 
New South Wales. 
Distr. —New South Wales. 
Platycercus eximius ceciliae Mathews. (20-553.) 
Platycercus cecilice Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 14, June 17th, 
1911: new name for Platycercus splendidus Gould. (Fig, Gould, 
v. pi. 28; Math. vi. pi. 306.) 
Platycercus splendidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1845, p. 105, Feb. 1846 : 
Darling Downs, Queensland. Not Shaw, Mus. Lever, p. 27, 1792. 
Distr. —South Queensland and Interior of New South Wales. 
Platycercus eximius diemenensis North. 
Platycercus diemenensis North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat. no. 1, vol. iii. 
pt. ii. p. 128, July 27th, 1911 : Tasmania. 
Distr. —Tasmania. 
Platycercus eximius colei Mathews. 
Platycercus eximius colei Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vi. pt. 4, p. 360, 
June 27th, 1917 : Ballarat, Victoria. 
Distr. —Victoria. 
Genus BARNARDIUS Bonaparte. 
Barnardius Bonaparte, Revue et Mag. de Zool. 2nd ser. vol. vi. p. 153, 
March 1854. Type (by tautonymy) : B. typicus=Platycercus 
barnardi Vigors & Horsfield. 
Barnardius barnardi (V. & H.). 
Distr. —South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and 
South Australia. 
Platycercus mastersianns Barasay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. ii. p. 27, July 1877 : 
Interior of New South Wales. (Fig. P. Z. S. 1902, pi. xix.) Is considered a hybrid. 
