TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 129 



314890. Adult male. Siquijor Island, Philippine Islands. February 27, 

 1891. Collected by Dean C. Worcester and Frank S. Bourns. Re- 

 ceived from the Minneapolis Public Library, which acquired it from 

 the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, where it was No. 91 of 

 the Menage Collection. 



Genus PSITTACULA Cuvier 



Conurus fasciatus abbotti Oberholser 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 32: 29, April 11, 1919. 

 ==Psittacula alexandri abbotti (Oberholser). See Peters, Checklist of 



birds of the world 3: 244, 1937. 

 178825. Adult male. South Andaman Island, Andaman Islands, Bay of 



Bengal. January 17, 1901. Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 Conurus fasciatus calus Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 4, October 26, 1912. 

 ■=Psittacula alexandri cola (Oberholser). See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool. 94: 340, 1944. 

 179664. Adult male. Sibobo Bay, Simulue (Simalur) Island, Barussan 



Islands, eastern Indian Ocean off Sumatra. October 21, 1902. Col- 

 lected by William L. Abbott. 

 Palaeornis major Richmond 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15 : 188, August 6, 1902. 

 =Psittacula alexandri major (Richmond) . See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool. 94: 341, 1944. 

 179111. Adult male. Pulau Babi, Barussan Islands, eastern Indian 



Ocean off Sumatra. January 14, 1902. Collected by William L. 



Abbott. 

 Conurus fasciatus perioncus Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 4, October 26, 1912. 

 =Psittacula alexandri perionca (Oberholser). See Ripley, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. 94: 341, 1944. 

 180817. Adult male. Samasama, Nias Island, Barussan Islands, eastern 



Indian Ocean off Sumatra. February 22, 1905. Collected by William 



L. Abbott. 



Genus PROSOPEIA Bonaparte 



Platycercus atrogularis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 129, "pi. xxxv," 



1848. 

 =Prosopeia tabuensis atrogularis (Peale) . See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 3: 250 (footnote 2), 1937; Mayr, Birds of the Southwest 



Pacific, p. 133, 1945. 

 13974. Adult (sex not indicated). Shores of the Fiji Islands==Vanua 



Levu or Kioa Island, Fiji Islands, Oceania. Original number 335. 



U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



