PSEPHOTUS MULTICOLOR.
Many-coloured Parrakeet.
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Platycercus multicolor,Yig. and Horsf in<l 1 mi'yj^i a n j^ p jfe “jg-jh f m Abli uid \ il i;p.528.
T his species is.strie tm^i inhabits nt ul'irhrXtjithrinr nf Australia, beingJSjund on the banks of the l^chlan,
MJreravand Darling, audlpaSording tftli^ b e l-a tta c h e d t o m B t p to w 5 |l the Sydney Museum, the neighbourhood
of the 'Pink Hills. It i'^wTrue /V //W w and is differs from
that-auf? every otln r s|i<ni s, nl ibi gi um m’ rh< p ib ln "-m binds of colour which ornament the head,
EMMp3K|j rump; it is a species I did not meet with myself, and HdOMnation has been given by
those travclh is who h n< visltid Us rlv " “'•“ " i 'th'iln*i is hmmn uf its habits and
si i II a rare bird, and* to
'M|i(h vuiitnn is found to*m I 'lu 'j ih i ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ p ^ S lv i 'd u a l s ^ ^M t l i e band across
;fbif.nTii^coiife.Ja'ii:l!t yellow, while;in^^rsjtlie same part f e tj^ ld “with red.
l ||rK ^ H i i l t male ^ a s^ h ffi^ e h lS d and rhouldi rs siilpjmr-tellow . innlo-fcd-uiverts ' ilron-iellowj rump
5 p |s e d 'I m t ^ ^ ^ B t ' l a i i d s of-jeUowiabVgr.eigi, 'datk chestnut; occiput reddish
ehertnui‘i*hhse of the primaries, secondaries and spuriommggfiand tfi& ^ ^ ^ n g -eO T e rts jic h deep bluet
S w r part p f the^bdomeir and thighs scarlet{ middle tu lfi lln * ^ ^ ^ ^ S u f i* o i« * S W u u .h grim
passing l n ^ e r y p S C » ^ t th u r tips; all the t 11 '•"rthi ‘W ' ^ f e p 1
band of black near the base; remainder of tK.elpJumage;de.ej>'gt^^e^hlb9 S ^ p 1?t*)rown 5 degijj wood-
.ibiopn^i . <■-■ ■” ■: . - (
1' siyltjhjianmhao rl^tlj-o.at mil breiist
yellowish broWnand only an bauds mVWic^oiejput^md^iWiig
The “Plate represents the two sezds’pf the natural size.