^°''i^iV^^ 1 Shufeldt, Skeleton of Kea Parrot {Nestor notahilis). 27 



Nestor ; and the old statement as to the universal absence of a 

 gall-bladder, or, at all events, its only exceptional presence as an 

 individual variety, in the Parrots and Pigeons, are repeated" 

 (Coll. Sci. Mem., pp. 163, 164). Later on he wrote a paper " On 

 the late Prof. Garrod's Contributions to Bird Anatomy and 

 Classification," in which he simply pointed out what Garrod had 

 done with Nestor {Ibis, 1881, pp. 1-32, also Coll. Sci. Mem., 

 pp. 189-213). 



Sharpe, in his " Hand-list of Birds," vol. ii., p. i, gives the 

 following classification : — 



Order XXIII. — Psittaciformes. 



Family I. — Nestoridce. 



{Cf. Salvad. " Cat. B. Brit. Mus.," xx., p. 4, 1891.) 

 with four existing species of Nestor contained in it, and two extinct 

 ones. 



In his " Classification of Birds " further divisions are suggested, 

 thus : — 



Order XXIX. — Psittaciformes. 



SUB-ORDER LXXII. — PSITTACI. 



Family i.- — Nestor idee. 



,, 2. — Cyclopsittacidce. 



,, 4. — CacatuidcB. 



,, 5. — PsittacidcB. 



,, 6. — Stringopidce. 



And of this he says : — " The following order of Families has been 

 kindly supplied to me by my friend Count Salvadori. He pro- 

 poses it in his forthcoming volume of the British Museum 

 ' Catalogue of Birds.' " 



In the " Catalogue of the Specimens Illustrating the Osteology 

 of Vertebrated Animals, Recent and Extinct, Contained in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Part III. — 

 Class Aves," by R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., London, 1891, it is 

 to be noted that Nestor is represented on page 239. (Wagler, 

 " Abhandl. Ak. Wissensch. Miinchen," i., p. 503, 1829-30.) In 

 that museum there was, at the time the " Catalogue " appeared, 

 the upper mandible and a skeleton of the Ka Ka Parrot {Nestor 

 hypopolius) (Gould, " Handb. B. Austr.," ii., p. 548, 1865), and 

 a skull as well as a mounted skeleton of the Mountain Ka Ka 

 {Nestor notahilis).* 



I have looked up the paper, which is in German, by Dr. Ludwig 



* Nestor notabilis, Gould, P.Z.S., 1856, p. 94 ; id., " Handb. B. Austr.," 

 ii., p. 544, 1865 ; BuUer, " B. New Zealand " (second ed.), vol. i., p. 166 

 (1888); A. B. Meyer. " Abbild. Vogel-Skelet.," Taf. xxiii. (AT. meridionalis) ; 

 Lorenz, Sitz, K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Ixxxiv., Abth. i., p. 624. There is a 

 brief but very good popular account of the Keas in " The Living Animals 

 of the World," vol. ii., p. 487, Lond. It is illustrated by three figures of 

 Keas, one of which is an excellent reproduction of a photograph from life 

 by W. Reid. 



