A ‘new’ Night Parrot specimen?

Abstract

Three lots of mounted feathers recently acquired by the Australian Museum represent the Rufous Scrub-bird Atrichornis rufescens, Noisy Scrub-bird A. clamosus and Night Parrot Pezoporus occidentalis. These were originally in the possession of Sidney W. Jackson. Although the label accompanying the Night Parrot feathers attributes them to Richard Helms of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia in 1894, there are problems with this information, and Jackson may have removed the feathers from specimens while curating the H.L. White collection.