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Show 170 ON THE PARROTS IN THE SOCIETY'S GARDENS. [Mar. 4, and only specimens ever received by the Society. (See P. Z. S. 1900, p. 772.) 20. CACATUA GYMNOPIS. This specimen is the oldest bird in the Parrot-house, having been in the Society's possession for 33 years. It was purchased June 2nd, 1868. 50. CHRYSOTIS GUTLDINGI. ' 51. „ AUGUSTA. 62. „ BOUQUETI. W e have always a good series of specimens of the Neotropical genus Chrysotis in the Collection. W e are now so fortunate as to possess examples of these three rare Antillean species, and only a short time ago had also an example of C. versicolor of Dominica. (See P.Z. S. 1890, p. 772.) 71. PSITTACUS ERITHACUS. One of our specimens of this bird (received Dec. 24th, 1897) has a pure white tail. 75. ECLECTUS WESTERMANNI. (Plate XVIII.) In 1899 and 1900 we received under our care a series of ten specimens of both sexes of this bird, deposited by Mr. Rothschild. Whatever doubts may have been formerly expressed, it is now, I think, quite certain that this is a valid species, although we do not yet know its exact locality. Mr. Rothschild having already published his notes on this remarkable species (Bull. B. O. C. x. p. ii, Oct. 1899), I need not repeat them here further than to say that the male is at once recognizable by its entirely green breast, and that the female is most like the corresponding sex of E. pectoralis but has a dull purple (not blue) lower breast. 85. PAL^EORNIS FINSCHI. This is a rare species from Burmah, of which we received our first specimen in Nov. 1901 from Mr. E. W . Harper, F.Z.S., to whom we are indebted for examples of so many rare Indian species. (See Cat. B. xx. p. 458, pi. xii.) 95. PLATYCERCUS MASTERSIANUS. (Plate XIX.) Platycercus mastersianus, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. ii. p. 27 (1877); Salvad. Cat. B. xx. p. 543. W e are so fortunate as to have a single example of this rare bird in the Collection, deposited by Mr. Rothschild on the 29th Oct., 1897, and I have great pleasure in exhibiting a coloured drawing of it prepared by Mr. Smit (Plate XIX.). It is clearly a member of the group of P. elegans, but differs from all others in having the central parts of the tail-feathers whitish. Count Salvadori was unacquainted with it, and merely copied the original description in a footnote. |
