54 I'ROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1899^. 



Pyrrhura calliptera (Mass.). 



Coiiurm cdlUpterm Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 72. 



22.385. 9 Bogota. Rivoli coll. 



22.386. 9 Bogota. Rivoli coll. 



22.387. rf Bogota. Rivoli coll. Type. 



No Massena specimen is in the British Museum collection. 



Pyrrhura devillei (Mass.). 



Conurus devillei Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 73. 



There is no specimen of this bird in the Academy, 



The type is in the British Museum (Cat. of Bds., xx, p. 227). 



Pyrrhura molinae (Mass.). 



Conurus molina' Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 73. 



22.388. 9 (?) Chiquitos. Rivoli coll. 



22.389. c? (?) Chiquitos. Rivoli coll. Type. 



A type is in the British Museum {Cat. of Bds., xx, p. 227). 

 Pionus selinoides (Mass.). 



PsUtacus selinoides Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 73. 

 22,542. (^ Bogota. Rivoli coll. Tyj)e. 



A type is in the British Museum (Cat. of Bds., xx, p. 226). 



Pionus cobaltinus (Mass.). 



PsUtacus cobaltinus Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 74. 



22,536. juv. S^ S. America. Rivoli coll. Type. 



A type is in the British Museum (Cat. of Bds., xx, p. 325). 



John Gould. 



As already explained, Dr. Wilson secured Gould's entire collec- 

 tion of Australian birds, including nearly all of the types of species 

 described up to and including the seventh volume of his Birds of 

 Australia. The types of the species described in the supplement, 

 as well as such additional specimens as were procured after Dr. 

 Wilson's purchase, went to the British Museum, Several speci- 

 mens apparently from this subsequent collection are given in the 

 Catalogue of Birds, as types of sjoecies described long before Dr. 

 Wilson's purchase, whereas the Academy specimens have the better 

 claim, the others being, so far as I can judge, topotypes secured 

 some time afterward. There is no reason to suppose that Gould 

 withheld any of the specimens he possessed at the time of the sale. 



Gould's collection, after purchase, was sent to Verreaux for 

 mounting, and the original labels were removed, and their contents 

 (or part of it) transcribed on the base of the stands, every speci- 



