Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 17. 
Family NESTORIDJE. 
NESTOR PRODUCTUS. 
LONG-BILLED PARROT. 
(Plate 15.) 
Nestor Lesson, Traite d’Omith., p. 190, livr. iii., p. 190, July 10th, 1830. Type (by monotypy) : 
Psittacus meridionalis Gmelin. 
Centrourus Swainson, Class. Birds, Yol. II., p. 303, July 1st, 1837. Type (by monotypy) : Psittacus 
australis Shaw=P. meridionalis Gmelin. 
Plyctolophus PRODUCTUS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.), May 24th, 1836, p. 19 : Phillip 
Island, off Norfolk Island. 
(?) Wilson’s Parrakeet Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. II., p. 170, 1822 : New South Wales error= 
Norfolk Island. 
Long-billed Parrakeet Latham, ib., p. 171 : Norfolk Island = {productus). 
Plyctolophus productus Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), May 24th, 1836, p. 19. 
Nestor productus Gould, Synopsis Birds Austr. and Adj. Islands, pt. 1., pi. 12, Jan. 1837 ; id., Birds 
Austr. and Adj. Islands, part 1, pi. 7, Aug. 1837 ; id.. Birds Austr., Yol. V., pi. 6 (pt. 5), 
Dec. 1st, 1841 ; Pelzeln, Sitzimgsb. Ak. der Wiss., Vol. XLI., p. 323, pi. 5, figs. 3, 4, 5, 
1860 (after June 8th) ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 550, Dec. 1865; 
Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 9, 1891 (pref. Dec. 13th) ; Rothschild, 
Extinct Birds, p. 45, pi. 6 (head), 1907 (before June 19th) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 44, Jan. 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 452, Jan. 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 326, Dec. 1913 ; Mathews and Iredale, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. IV., p. 110, Dec. 
16th, 1920 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 282, 1927. 
Centrums productus Bonaparte, Papagaien, No. 265, Naumannia, 1856. 
Nestor norfolcensis Pelzeln, Sitzimgsb. Ak. der Wiss., Vol. XLI., p. 322, pi. 5, fig. 1, 1860 (after 
June 8th) : Norfolk Island ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 10, 1891 
(pref. Dec. 31st) ; Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., Vol. I., No. 1, p. 5, pi. 1, 
Aug. 1897 ; Rothschild, Extinct Birds, p. 47, pi. 6, 1907 (before June 19th) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 44, Jan. 1908. 
Distribution. Phillip Island, Norfolk Island (extinct). 
Adult. Top of the head grey, each feather bordered with smoky-brown; nape and hind-neck 
grey, tinted with dull golden-yellow, each feather margined with dull blackish-brown, 
producing a waved appearance ; mantle and scapulars dull brownish-grey, each feather 
widely margined with blackish-brown ; feathers of the lower back and rump dull crimson, 
narrowly margined with brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the mantle ; median and 
greater coverts greenish-grey, margined with brown and with a sub-marginal band of 
golden-yellow ; primary-coverts dark grey, glossed, especially on the outer web, with dull 
olive-green; quills umber-brown, glossed on the outer w r eb with dull bluish-green; 
tail-feathers umber-brown, glossed on the outer w r ebs with, dull olive-green ; sides of the 
face, ear-coverts and cheeks orange-red with w T hite shafts to all the feathers ; chin devoid 
of feathers ; throat dull vinous with whitish shafts ; sides of neck, fore-neck, chest and 
upper breast vinous-grey with a narrow margin of blackish-buff and a submarginal band 
of golden olive-yellow'; lower breast yellowish-white bordered with orange-yellow ; 
abdomen, sides of the body, flanks and under tail-coverts olive-brown, tinged with red ; 
lesser under wing-coverts golden-yellow': median under wing-coverts and axillaries 
crimson-red ; primary-quills and under-surface of the tail, ash-brown on the terminal 
half, with the basal half reddish-white, barred with ash-brown. Total length about 380 
nun.: culmen 54, wing 255, tail 138, tarsus 36 (Brit. Mus.). 
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