130 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



13981. Adult male. Shores of the Fiji Islands=Vanua Levu or Kioa 



Island, Fiji Islands, Oceania. Original number 335 (not 336, as given 



on old exhibition label). U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 There are seven entries for this form in the museum register. Of these, 

 both No. 13971 and No. 22463 are said to have had the original number 

 434, which would make them examples of Anthobaphes violaceus (Lin- 

 naeus). It is possible that No. 22463 is a mere reentry of No. 13971, but 

 in any case the specimens cannot now be found. No. 13973 has vanished 

 without trace. No. 32541 is now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 where it is No. 17732 ; our missing No. 32540 may be the cotype No. 74344 

 of the same museum. 



The old exhibition label attached to No. 13981 bears the name Apro- 

 smictus anna; it is not, however, the specimen so identified by Cassin, as 

 will appear from a comparison of the bird with Cassin's description. 

 Platycercus splendeiis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 127, "pi. xxxiv," 



1848. 

 =Prosopeia tahuensis splendens (Peale). See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 3: 251, 1937. 

 13987. Adult female. Shores of Peale's River (=Rewa River), Viti 



Levu, Fiji Islands, Oceania. Original number 336. U.S. Exploring 



Expedition ( 1838-1842 ) . 

 -'■■ 14974. Adult (sex not indicated). Shores of Peale's River (=Rewa 



River) , Viti Levu, Fiji Islands, Oceania. Original number 336. U.S. 



Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 There are five entries for this form in the museum register. Of these. 

 No. 13993 ("young") is probably the specimen of P. personata mistaken by 

 Peale for the immature of splendens. No. 14974 ("mtd.") is perhaps a 

 reentry of No. 13988 ("mtd."), which would otherwise be left unaccounted 

 for. No. 13994 is then left to represent the specimen now in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology (where it is No. 74343) . 



Genus PSITTINUS Blyth 



Psittinus cyanurus pontius Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 5, October 26, 1912. 

 179643. Adult male. South Pagi Island, Barussan Islands, eastern 

 Indian Ocean off Sumatra. December 18, 1902. Collected by 

 William L. Abbott. 

 Psittinus abbotti Richmond 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15 (37) : 188, August 6, 1902. 

 =Psiuinus cyanurus abbotti Richmond. See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



ZooL 94:342-343, 1944. 

 179106. Adult male. Simalur Island, Barussan Islands, eastern Indian 

 Ocean off Sumatra. December 11, 1901. Collected by William L. 

 Abbott. 



