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Show 300 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CERTAIN PARROTS. [Mar. 18, specially mentioned below, are examples of Licmetis gymnopis, Ara spixi *, Coracopsis barklyi, Chrysotis yuildingi, Chrysotis bouqueti2, and Nestor hypopolius. The species, however, to which I now wish to call special attention are the following ;- 1. BROTOGERYS TUIPARA (Gm.), and 2. BROTOGERYS CHRYSOPTERA (Linn.). Dr. Finsch has regarded the latter of these two birds as the young of the former, but, I believe, quite incorrectly, as will be apparent to those who examine our living specimens of these two species, of which I also exhibit skins from m y collection. B. chrysoptera has a narrow frontal margin of dark brown, and a brownish throat, which never develops into the orange front^ and chin-spot of B. tuipara. In my ' Catalogue of American Birds ' (p. 347) I have called B. tuipara B. notata, being the bird figured in PI. Enl. 77. fig. 2 (wide Psitt. notatus, Bodd.), and B. chrysoptera I have called B. tuipara. Certain localities are, for B. tuipara, Barra do Rio Negro ( Wallace), and for B. chrysoptera, Venezuela (Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G); but both species seem to occur in Guiana. 3. PALEEORNIS CYANOCEPHALUS (Linn.). 4. PALEEORNIS ROSA (Bodd.). W e have now also adult examples of both these nearly allied species, which have likewise been united by Dr. Finsch, but are clearly distinguished by Mr. Hume (Stray Feath. ii. p. 15). Mr. Gould has lately given excellent figures of both (Birds of Asia, pt. xxvi.), but has unfortunately reversed the names. 5. PALEEORNIS FASCIATUS. Psittacus fasciatus, P. L. S. Muller (ex PI. Enl. 517). Paleeornis fasciatus, Hume, Stray Feath. vii. p. 164. Paleeornis melanorhyncha, Scl. P. Z. S. 187L P- 771, et 1878, p. 999; Blyth, Ibis, 1873, p. 79. Paleeornis schisticeps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 696. I quite agree with Mr. Hume (I. s. c.) that tbe figure in the Planches Enluminees (517), attributed by Finsch to P. javanicus, is more probably intended for its Indian ally (P. lathami et P. me-lanorhynchus of Finsch), and that the best plan is to call the latter P. fasciatus. Of this species we have now three examples living in the collection, namely :- a. A black-billed bird (and therefore, I presume, a female), presented by Mr. Edmund Warre, April 12, 187L and stated to have been brought from Cashmere. This is the specimen alluded to by Blyth, Ibis, /. s. c. * See P. Z. S. 1878, p. 976, pi. lxi. 2 See P. Z. S. 1875, p. 61, pi. xi. |