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BODIES IN THE MUSEUM: I have categorised the birds that I examined at that time into the following simplified format.
Essentially there were: 1. Large bodied birds with green chest and lighter green abdomen, large bulbous beaks and large amounts of red above the cere see photograph 2. Smaller bodied birds -- than 1 above -- that had very dark green backs and chests then a clear demarcation line between the chest and abdomen, below that line and stopping just in front of the legs is solid bright yellow. The only birds that I paid attention to at that particular time had no red above the cere see photograph 3 while the beaks were generally smaller than those mentioned in item 1.
3. Large bodied birds with green chests and varying amounts of yellow -- from an odd feather to a substantial quantity of yellow feathers -- on the lower abdomen. Some of these birds have large amounts of red above the cere others none, these particular birds are generally accepted as intergrading specimens between item 1 and item 2 see photograph 4.
4. Birds with slightly smaller bodies than item 2 with pastel lighter bluish/ green body while the yellow stomach colouring is paler than birds in item 2 and without red bands above the cere see photograph 5 (opening feature photograph).
clearly defined bright yellow although I have some Port Lincolns
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HOW I CATEGORIZE THE DIFFERENCES: The way I like to consider this group of parrots is that the twenty eight is all green and is the largest bloke with both sexes having a prominent red band above the nostrils. Port Lincoln has a really dark green chest, clearly defined bright yellow stomach, generally smaller than the 28 – although I have some Port Lincolns almost equaling the 28 in size. Dependent upon their locality they can be different shades of green compared to the 28. I have also seen some quite small Port Lincolns in overall body shape that I would term petite. There is much variation in the extent of red in the forehead of this group, some have none others from different localities may have varying size red bands. Northern or arid-zone Port Lincoln, this is the smallest version of the species with slim body and overall pastel blue/ green replacing the brighter greens of the other two groups. The tummy on the arid zone is not the bright yellow of
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