Date Posted: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:23:35 -0000

Edward Lear - 'Paleheaded Parrakeet' (Platycercus palliceps) -1831.

Plate 19, 'Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots'

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The pale-headed rosella (Platycercus adscitus), is a broad-tailed parrot of the genus Platycercus native to northeastern Australia. It is a moderate-size parrot with a pale yellow head, predominantly white cheeks, scalloped black and gold back and pale blue underparts. There are two subspecies, the nominate Platycercus adscitus adscitus (Cape York Peninsula) and the better known Platycercus adscitus palliceps (eastern Queensland), known as the blue-cheeked rosella, that was depicted in 1832 by the English artist Edward Lear in his Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots.