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which are described nine new Parrots, while in the same journal 

 for 1856 there is a Catalogue of Parrots in the Massena collec- 

 tion, by M. Sonance, in which two hundred and eighteen species are 

 enumerated, some being described as new. 



The types of these latter species seem to have been purchased by 

 the British Museum, as with a few exceptions they are all listed in 

 the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Vol. xx. The 

 Academy has no specimens of them from the Massena collection. 



Specimens of all but three of the species described in the former 

 of the papers above mentioned are, however, in the Academy's 

 collection labeled as types of " Massena and Sonance." 



As the original manuscript catalogue contains these specimens it 

 would seem that they Avere shipped about the same time as the rest 

 of the collection, which reached Philadelphia in 1846, in which case 

 the labels must have been written long before the names were pub- 

 lished. It is possible, however, that they were not sent over until 

 after the paper by Massena and Sonance was prepared. 



In any case, the specimens have practically as much claim to 

 being considered the types as those in the British Museum, and a 

 list of them is therefore appended. 



Ara auricollis Cass. 

 Ara auritorques Mass. Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, 1854, p. 71. 



22.358. (f S. America. Rivoli coll. Type. 



22.359. J^ S.America. Rivoli coll. 



No type of this is in the British Museum. 



Gnathosittacea icterotis JMass.). 



Conurus icterotis Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 71. 



Type in British Museum. No specimen in the Academy collec- 

 tion. 

 Conurus rubrolarvatus Mass. 



Conurus rubrolarvatus Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 71. 



22,348. c? Guayaquil. Rivoli coll. Ti/jJe. 



A type also in British Museum (Cat. of Bds., xx, p. 183). 



Conurus seruginosus (L). 



Conurus chrijsogcmjs Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 72. 

 22,333. ? Colombia. Rivoli coll. Type. 



A specimen is also in the British Museum ( Cat. of Bds. , xx, p. 

 197), which is evidently one of the type lot, though not so marked 

 by the compiler. 



