Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 18. 
Family PL A T Y CERCI DM. 
CYANORAMPHUS NOViEZELANDIAL. 
(SUBFLAVESCENS.) 
LORD HOWE ISLAND GREEN PARROT. 
(Plate 16.) 
Cyaxoramphus Bonaparte, Rev. and Mag. de Zool., Yol. VI., p. 153, March 1854. Type (by 
subsequent designation Gray, 1855, p. 86) : Psittacus pacijicus Forster = Psittacus erythrotis 
Kuhl. 
Psittacus nov.t.zelandij; Sparrman, Mus. Carlson, fasc. ii., No. XXVIII., 1787 : Dusky Sound, 
New Zealand. 
Cyanorhamphus .subjlavescens Salvadori, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. vi., Vol. VII., p. 68, 1891 : 
Lord Howe Island ; id., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 585, pi. xvii., 1891 (pref. 
Dec. 13th); Rothschild, Extinct Birds, p. 70, 1907 (before June 19th) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 51, Jan. 1908. 
Platycercus novcezelandiw subjlavescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 452, Jan. 1912. 
Cyanorhamphus novcezelandice subjlavescens Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 326, Dec. 1913 ; id., 
Syst. Av. Australas., p. 349, June 13th, 1927. 
Distribution. Lord Howe Island (extinct) ; two skins in British Museum. 
Adult female (type ). Fore-head and fore-part of the crown crimson-scarlet; lores, sides of the 
face, ear-coverts and cheeks bright grass-green ; a patch of dull crimson behind the eyes ; 
chin and throat devoid of feathers ; sides of the neck and entire under-parts bright 
yellowish-green, lightest on the abdomen ; under -wing-coverts and axillaries greenish- 
blue ; quills below brownish-ash, narrowly barred on the inner web with yellow : scapulars, 
mantle, lower back and rump grass-green ; a patch of dull crimson on each side of the 
ramp ; upper tail-coverts slightly paler than the back ; primary-quills dark ash-brown 
with the outer webs blue on the basal half and bright grass-green on the terminal half 
and narrowly bordered with golden-yellow ; tail-feathers dark green bordered on the outer 
web with golden-yellow ; shafts horn-brown. Total length 325 mm. : culmen 22, wing 
149, tail 162, tarsus 22. Collected on Lord Howe Island on the 7th of September, 1853. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female, but the upper- and under-parts are a little brighter. 
Total length 232 mm. : culmen 19, wing 141, tail 144, tarsus 21. Collected at the 
same time and place as the female. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
* Platycercus pennantii var. nobbsi Tristram, Ibis, Jan. 1885, p. 49 : Norfolk Island. 
In my Birds of Australia, Yol. IV., pt. 4, p. 316, June 27th, 1917, I considered this bird to be introduced 
to Norfolk Island. The eggs are:—A clutch of 4 was found on 23rd November, 1912, and one of 5 
eggs on 1st November, 1912. The eggs are without gloss or with faint gloss. Measures: 285 X 23'4, 
27'6 X 23'6, 29 X 23'5, 27'6 x 24; 29 X 22 5, 28'5 X 23 5, 28'3 X 23'5, 28 X 23' 1, 29'6 X 221 mm. 
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