The female has the head, sides of the face, back of the neck, upper part of the back and scapulars dull olive-green; throat, all the under surface, rump and wing-coverts yellowish green, the latter passing into deep green on the centre of the shoulder; primaries, some of the secondaries, and the spurious wing deep blue-black, margined externally with yellowish green; the remainder of the secondaries and a few of the greater coverts deep red; two centre tail-feathers deep green, the remainder green at the base, passing into black on the inner webs; the five lateral feathers on each side margined on their inner webs and tipped with rosy red, which is broadest and most conspicuous on the two outer feathers; bill scarlet; feet ash-grey. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: APROSMICTUS SCAPULATUS. _J. Gould and H.C. Richter del._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] APROSMICTUS SCAPULATUS. King Lory. _Psittacus scapulatus_, Bechst.: Kuhl, Nova Acta, p. 56.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 407. pl. 55. _Psittacus Tabuensis_, var. β, Lath. Ind. Orn., p. 88. _La Grande Perruche à collier et croupion bleu_, Le Vaill. Hist, des Perr., pls. 55 and 56. _Tabuan Parrot_, White’s Journ., pl. in p. 168 male, in p. 169 female.—Phill. Bot. Bay, pl. in p. 153.—Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 81. _Platycercus scapulatus_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 284.—Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., tom. i. pp. 492 and 537.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 122. _Psittacus cyanopygius_, Vieill., 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xxv. p. 339.—Ibid. Gal. des Ois. Supp., pls. of male and female. _Scarlet and Green Parrot_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 116. _Platycercus scapularis_, Swains. Zool. Ill., 2nd Ser. pl. 26.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 207. _Aprosmictus scapulatus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., August 9, 1842. _Wellat_, Aborigines of New South Wales.