Bibliography for Cyclopsittacini

• Beehler, B.M., Pratt, T.K. & Zimmerman, D.A. 1986. Birds of New Guinea. Handbook no. 9 of the Wau Ecology Institute. Princeton : Princeton University Press xiii 293 pp. 55 pls.
• Beehler, B.M. & Finch, B.W. 1985. Species-Checklist of the Birds of New Guinea. Australasian Ornithological Monographs No. 1. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iii 126 pp.
• Bourke, P.A. & Austin, A.F. 1947. Notes on the Red-browed Lorilet. The Emu 46: 286-294
• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.
• Corfe, B. 1977. A sighting of the fig-parrot in south-east Queensland. Sunbird 8: 44
• Diggles, S. 1876. The Ornithology of Australia. Brisbane : S. Diggles Part 19. [publication dated as 1865–1876]
• Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry Vol. 4 422 pp. [published between 1842–1853]
• Forshaw, J.M. 1967. The subspecies of the Fig Parrot, Opopsitta diophthalma. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15: 43-52
• Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls.
• Forshaw, J.M. 1979. Eggs of the Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Australian Bird Watcher 8: 98-99 [Mathews, G.M. 1917. Sylvester Diggles, Ornithologist. Austral Avian Records 3: 98–108]
• Forshaw, J.M. & Muller, K.A. 1978. Annotated list of birds observed at Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, during October, 1974. Australian Bird Watcher 7: 171-194
• Gould, J. 1867. On a new Australian parakeet. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 182-183 [Date published 31/May/1867]
• Gould, J. 1875. Descriptions of three new species of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 314-315 [Date published 1 Aug 1875]
• Holyoak, D.T. 1970. The relation of the parrot genus Opopsitta to Psittaculirostris. The Emu 70: 198
• Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. 1841. Description de plusieurs oiseaux nouveaux ou peu connus, provenant de l'expèdition autour du monde faite sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 2 16: 312-320
• Iredale, T. 1946. A new Australian parrot. The Emu 46: 1-2 pl. 1
• Keast, A. 1961. Bird speciation on the Australian continent. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 123: 307-495
• Marshall, A.J. 1947. On Opopsitta marshalli and the possibility of another new parrot. The Emu 47: 50-54
• Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55-62 [For publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24]
• Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129]
• Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1-104 pls 275-282. [Date published 22 Nov. 1916: publication dated as 1916–1917]
• Mathews, G.M. 1917. Additions and corrections to my list. Austral Avian Records 3: 127-128 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]
• Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 6 pp. 445-516 + xix pls 317-324. [Date published 11 Dec. 1917]
• Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.
• Mathews, G.M. 1930. Some interesting links with John Gould. The Emu 30: 141-143
• Mayr, E. 1941. List of New Guinea Birds. A Systematic and Faunal List of the Birds of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands. New York : American Museum of Natural History xi 260 pp.
• Mayr, E. 1947. A parrot new for Australia. The Emu 47: 54-55
• McCoy, F. 1875. Note on an apparently new parrot from Cardwell, NE Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 16: 54 [published July]
• Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp.
• Pucheran, J. 1853. Mammifères et Oiseaux. 166, 56, 107 pp. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. (eds). Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de Vaisseau. Zoologie. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 3 166 pp.
• Ramsay, E.P. 1874. Description of a new species of genus Cyclopsitta, from northern Queensland. Sydney Morning Herald 70(11378): 5 [published 5 Nov.]
• Reichenbach, L. 1850. Avium Systema Naturale. Das natürliche System der Vögel mit hundert Tafeln grössentheils Original-Abbildungen der bis jetzt entdeckten fast zwölfhundert typischen Formen. Leipzig : F. Hofmeister viii 36 pp. 100 pls. [publication dated 1849–1850]
• Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp.
• Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls.
• Sclater, P.L. 1860. On the species of the genus Prioniturus, and on the geographical distribution of the Psittacidae in the Eastern Archipelago. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 223-228
• Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp.
• Stanger, M., Clayton, M., Schodde, R., Wombey, J. & Mason, I. 1998. CSIRO List of Australian Verebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing iii 124 pp.
• Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp.

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