Identifier: CompanionGoulds00Digg (find matches)
Title: Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Diggles, Silvester Gould, John, 1804-1881. Handbook to the birds of Australia
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Brisbane, Thorne & Greenwell
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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domen, light olive grey; thighs, tinged with rose color; upper tail coverts, olive, tinged with blue;the two middle tail feathers, greyish olive, washed with blue—the next two on each side, the same color on their outer webs and dark brownon the inner ; the remaining feathers of the tail, olive black in the middle, margined with bright olive green on the outer webs and brightscarlet on the inner webs, throughout the whole of their length ; bill, scarlet; feet, brown. Length, 16 inches ; wing, 7 ; tail, 10 ; bill, \ ; tarsus, ;. This remarkable and very interesting species was obtained by T. G-. Waterhouse, Esq., the Curator of the Institute Museum,Adelaide, while engaged in the exploratory expedition conducted by Stuart in Northern Australia, latitude 16° 54 S. ; the locality beingknown as Purdies Ponds. The disposition of its colors is unique, and altogether difterent from the other two known species, which form atrio equally remarkable for elegance of form and beauty of coloring.
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PLATYCERCUS FLAVIVENTRIS Yellow bellied Parrakeef 2 PLATYCERCUS BARNARD!Barnards Parrakeef PLAT^CERCUS ELAVIVENTEIS. (Yellow-bellied Parrakeet.) FoEEHEAD, scarlet; crown of the head and back of the neck, pale yellow, each feather slightly margined with brown ; space under the eye,dull scarlet; cheeks, blue; back and shoulders, dark olive black, each feather edged with green; shoulders and middle portions of the wing,blue ; the primaries, blue at the base of their external edges ; the remainder, blackish brown ; rump and two middle tail feathers, green ;the remaining tail feathers, dark blue at the base, and lighter towards their tips; under surface, yellow; bill, flesh-color; feet, greyish brown.The female is smaller and less brilliant than the male. Length, 13 inches; wing, 7i ; tail, 8 ; tarsus, 1. This species is limited to Tasmania and the islands of Basss Straits. - It is gregarious in every description of locality, butprincipally seen on the ground, over which it runs with great

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