The female has the head and upper surface dull green; under surface dull yellowish green; a few of the wing-coverts crimson-red, forming a stripe down the wing; rump pale verditer blue; tail-feathers more largely tipped with pink than in the male; irides olive-brown; bill light horn-colour.
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size.
PLATYCERCUS SEMITORQUATUS.
J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
PLATYCERCUS SEMITORQUATUS, Quoy and Gaim.
Yellow-collared Parrakeet.
Psittacus semitorquatus, Quoy and Gaim.
Dȍw-arn, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia.
Dȕm-ul-uk, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia.
Twenty-eight Parrakeet, Colonists of Swan River.
This very noble species of Platycercus is abundantly dispersed over the greater portion of Western Australia, where it inhabits almost every variety of situation, sometimes searching for food upon the ground like the rest of its congeners, and at others on the trees; its chief food being either grass-seeds or the hard stoned fruits and seeds peculiar to the trees of the country in which it lives. It is equally as abundant at King George’s Sound as it is at Swan River; I have not been so fortunate as to obtain any precise information as to the extent of its range over the continent, the only parts of the country from which I have received specimens being the two localities mentioned above.