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Show 187L] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. 493 Fig. 4. Head of Cacatua gymnopis. name to our last mentioned bird, and propose to call it, from the large naked space below the eye, CACATUA GYMNOPIS, sp. nov. Alba : fronte et loris rosaceis: regione ophthalmica nuda, dilatata, ceerulescenti-plumbea : crista pyramidali : plumis capitis cervicis et ventris ad basin rosaceo tinctis: remigibus rectricibusque intus limonaceo-flavescentibus: crassitie sanguineee paulo superante. Hab. South Australia. Viv. Soc. Zoolog. Londinensis. [06*. Since preparing these notes I have noticed that the two Cacatuee in the gallery of the British Museum, obtained by Sturt at Depot Creek during his expedition into Southern Australia, and marked Cacatua sanguinea, evidently belong to the present species, (cf. Sturt's Narrative, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 36). The correct locality of the bird will therefore be the interior of South Australia.] 29. CONURUS _ERUGINOSUS. In his excellent monograph of the Parrots (i. p. 506) Dr. Finsch has united the Psittacus eeruginosus of Linnaeus (Syst. Nat. i. p. 142) along with a number of other synonyms (Conurus xantho-leemus, mihi, C. chrysogenys, Souance, and G. ocularis, Scl. et Salv.) into one species under Conurus pertinax. I am not now quite in a |
