Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
No. 19. 
Family PL A T Y GERCI DAI. 
CYANORAMPHUS NOVM2ZELANDLE. 
(VERTICALIS.) 
NORFOLK ISLAND GREEN PARROT. 
(Plate 17.) 
Psittacus verticalis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxii., No. 9, 1801, after May 30th: 
New Holland error=Norfolk Island. 
Red-topped Parrot Latham, General Synops., Suppl. II., p. 369, 1801 : Port Jackson error= 
Norfolk Island. 
Psittacus verticalis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxiii, 1801, after May 30th : Norfolk Island; 
Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 606, 1891 (pref. Dec. 13th). 
Platycercus coolcii Gray, List Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. iv., sec. ii., p. 13, May 28th, 1859: New 
Zealand error=Norfolk Island. 
Platycercus rayneri Gray, Ibis, July 1862, p. 228 : Norfolk Island. 
Gyanorhamphus coolci Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 584, 1891 (pref. Dec. 13th); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 51, Jan. 1908. 
Platycercus norcezelandice verticalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 447, Jan. 1912. 
Cyanorarnphus novcezdandice verticalis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 320, Dec. 1913 ; id., Svst. 
Av. Australas., p. 349, June 13th, 1927. 
Distribution. Norfolk Island. 
Adidt male. Crown of the head, lores and fore-head crimson ; occiput, nape and hind-neck deep 
grass-green ; back of the head, lower back, ramp and upper tail-coverts deep grass-green; 
a large patch of dull crimson-red on each side of the rump ; lesser, median and greater wing- 
coverts grass-green ; primary-coverts purplish-blue ; quills blackish-brown on the inner 
web and purplish-blue, fringed with yellowish-green, on the outer web; tail-feathers 
dark grass-green, shafts black ; sides of the face and cheeks bright green ; a patch of dull 
crimson behind the eye ; chin, throat and remainder of the under-surface bright yellowish- 
green, bright er on the middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries greenish- 
blue ; quills below brownish-ash. Bill flesh-colour, blue and black, eyes bright orange-red, 
feet dark flesh-grey. Total length 300 mm. : culmen 22, wing 142, tail 158, tarsus 23. 
Figured. Collected at Middlegate, Norfolk Island, on the 1st of August, 1912. 
Adult female. Fore-head, lores and fore-part of the crown dull crimson, each feather green at 
the base ; back of the head, neck, mantle, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts beautiful 
grass-green, a small patch of dull crimson on each side of the rump ; tail-feathers dark green 
with black shafts, all the feathers being shot with bluish-green, especially towards the 
shafts ; primaries and secondaries black on the inner web, with a bar of yellowish-white 
across each web ; greater primary-coverts and outermost primaries bright blue on the 
outer web ; outer webs of the innermost primaries and secondaries green like the back; 
cheeks, throat, chest and feathers round the eye light grass-green ; middle of the breast, 
belly and under tail-coverts yellowish-green ; under-surface of the tail dull olive-green. 
Eyes yellow, bill blue-grey, feet flesh-grey. Total length 298 mm.: wing 133, tail 
tarsus 21, culmen 20. Collected at Steels Point, Norfolk Island, on the 27th of May, 1913. 
The sexes are practically alike. 
Immature have less red on the fore-head. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
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