. Bird notes . BIRD NOTES. ,ael, QTXEEN ALEXAI^DRA AleicandrapEromlife by HI). AEfley,M etimp. All rights reserved. AUGUST, 1911. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. The Queen Alexandra Parrakeet. {Spathopterus {or Polytclis) Alexandrce). By Hubert D. Astley, , , No more gorgeous colourings are to be found amongstbirds than in the Parrot tribe, but the Queen Alexandra Par-rakeet stands alone for the marvellous combination of delicatetints. The bird is like an opal, like a sunset where coloursai-e all subdued y
. Bird notes . BIRD NOTES. ,ael, QTXEEN ALEXAI^DRA AleicandrapEromlife by HI). AEfley,M etimp. All rights reserved. AUGUST, 1911. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. The Queen Alexandra Parrakeet. {Spathopterus {or Polytclis) Alexandrce). By Hubert D. Astley, , , No more gorgeous colourings are to be found amongstbirds than in the Parrot tribe, but the Queen Alexandra Par-rakeet stands alone for the marvellous combination of delicatetints. The bird is like an opal, like a sunset where coloursai-e all subdued yet brilliant. Neither is it because of colour-ing only that this parrot pleases the eye so strongly, the formis exceedingly graceful, and the flight astonishingly , in his great work Birds of Australia (Supplement) wrote: I feel assured that the discovery of an additional speciesof the lovely genus Polytelis will be hailed with pleasure hy lall ornithologists, and that they will readily assent to its bearing
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