Vol. 30, pp. 125-126 July 27, 1917 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



MUTANDA ORNITHOLOGICA. 

 II. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



This is the second * of a series of papers treating of various 

 necessary changes in the current technical names of birds. 

 Like the first, the present paper relates chiefly to preoccupied 

 specific terms. 



Family PSITTACIDAE. 

 Loriculus indicus. 



The use of Psittacus indicus Gmelin t for the Ceylon Loriculus is inter- 

 dicted by the anterior Psittacus indicus Gmelin, J a synonym of Eos 

 histrio (Miiller). The next available name is Psittacus asiaticus Latham, § 

 and the species should therefore stand as Loriculus asiaticus (Latham). 



Polytelis barrabandii. 



Swainson's Psittacus barrabandii ,\\ now known as Polytelis barra- 

 bandii, is ineligible for use on account of the prior Psittaws barrabandi 

 Kuhl,H which is Pionopsittacus barrabandi (Kuhl). Desmarest dis- 

 covered this a few years after the publication of Swainson's name, and 

 rechristened Swainson's bird Psittacus swainsonii ; ** therefore the 

 species should be called Polytelis swainsonsii ( Desmarest ).t+ 



* For the first installment, cf . Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., :50, March 31, 1917, pp. 75-76. 

 tSyst. Nat., I, i, 1788, p. 349 (India). 

 tSyst. Nat., I, i, 1788, p. 318 ("Amboina " [!]). 



§Index Ornith., 1, 1790, p. 130 (India) (nom. nov. pro Psittacus indicus Gmelin). 

 || Zool. Illustr., I, 1820-21, pi. 59 (Australia). 

 ITConsp. Psitt.. 1820, p. 61 (Brazil). 

 ••Diet. Sci. Nat. XXXIX, 1826, p. 39 (Australia). 



tf Mr. G. M. Mathews has already indicated this change of name (Novit. Zool. 

 XVIII, 1911, p. 13) but without detailed explanation. 



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