On a groitp of Psittacidce known to the Ancients, 55 



Psittacus bimaculatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 90. No. 49. 

 Bimaculated Parrakeet. Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. II. p. 163. No. 37. 



Ed. r\ 

 Bimaculated Parrakeet. Shaw. Gen. Zool. Vol. VIJI. p. 457. 

 Psittacus Javanicus. Osbeck. t* I. 101. 

 Psittacus Javanicus. Gmel. Vol. I. p. 321. 

 Psittacus Osbeckii. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 87. No. 16. 

 Psittacus Osbeckii. Horsf. Linn. Trans. Vol. XIII. p. 182. 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet. Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. 1. p. 237. No. 37. 



var. E. Javan Parrakeet. 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet. Shaw. Gen. Zool. Vol. VIII. p. 426. 



var. Javan Parrakeet. 

 To these may I think be also added the following synonyms : 

 ^the rose colour of the breast seeming to identify the birds des- 

 cribed with the species before us, rather than with any other. 

 Psittacus Alexandri. Amaenit. Academ. Tom. IV. p. 236. 

 Psittacus Alexandri. var. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 98. No. 37. 

 Bracelet Parrakeet from the East Indies. Albin, Vol. II. pi. 1^. 

 La Perruche a collier des Indes. Briss. Tom. IV. p. 326. No. 56. 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet. Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. I. p. 236. No. 37. 



var. B. Purple-ringed Parrakeet. 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet. Shaw. Gen. Zool. Vol. VIII. p. 42ei« 



var. Purple-ringed Parrakeet. 



Habitat in regione Pondiceriana, Jav^, &c. 



I have included the above various synonyms under one name, 

 in deference to the opinions of some of our best modetn ornithop- 

 Jogists, whose authority^ from their having devoted much atten- 

 tion to the present subject, must have considerable weight upon 

 this point. I have however some doubts whether the Javanese 

 Tsirds, first described by M. Osbeck as Psit. Javanicus^ and after^ 

 wards by Dr. Latham as Psit. Osbeckii^ be not distinct from the 

 continental species. In all the birds of the group which I have 

 ascertained to come from Java, I have observed some devia- 

 tion in their colours and in the distribution of them, from those 

 .birds which have been described under the name oi Pondicerianus ; 

 ^while at the same time the former birds exhibited little variety 



