10 NESTORIDiE. 



Adult. Upper surface brown, the feathers margined with a deeper 

 tint; crown paler, neck all round tinged with yellowish ; uropygium 

 and upper tail-coverts dull red ; cheeks and throat reddish ; on the 

 breast a broad cross-band of a yellowish-white colour ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts ochreous red ; wings brown with a slight tinge 

 of green ; middle wing-coverts slightly edged with yellowish ; 

 quills, towards the base of the inner web, toothed with pale yel- 

 lowish red ; under wing-coverts yellow, the inner ones and the 

 axillaries orange-red ; tail browu, greenish towards the base ; tail- 

 feathers towards the base of the inner web toothed with pale red : 

 iris dark brown ; bill brown ; nostrils, bare skin round the eye, and 

 feet dark olive-brown. Total length 15 inches, wing 10-3, tail 5 - 6, 

 bill 2, tarsus 1-2. 



Hab. Philip Island. 



The length of the bill varies a good deal, from 1-6 to 2 inches. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Philip Island. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Philip Island. Bell Coll. 



5. Nestor norfolcensis. 



Long-billed Parralicet, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 171 (1822). 



Nestor norfolcensis, Pete. Sitzb. /.-. Akad. Wissensch. xli. pp. 322- 



325, Taf. — (1860); Ibis, 1860, p. 422; Finsch, Joum.f. Orn. 



1867, p. 323 (note) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 900 (1868) ; id. Ibis, 



1869, p. 379 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 159, n. 8259 (1870) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 701 (1875) ; Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, 



p. 21 (Consp. Psitt. p. 21): id. Vogelbild., Nachtr. n. 3 (1883); 



Pete, i Lorenz, Ann. d. naturh. Uofmw. 1888, p. 39; Buller, B. 



X. Zeal. 2nd ed. i. p. L64 (1888). 

 Nestor productus, part., G. R. Gr. Ibis, 1862, p. 230. 



" Length above twelve inches. Bill very long and curved, thick 

 halfway from the base, but tapering to a point at the tip,, and 

 under mandible truncated at the end ; colour of both dusky ; head 

 and neck dull greeu ; sides [of the head] under the eyes, chin, and 

 throat pale crimson ; upper parts of the body, wing, and tail dusky; 

 breast yellowish ; belly, thighs, and veut more or less crimson ; tail 

 cuneiform; legs brown." {Latham.) 



Hab. Norfolk Island. 



This bird is now extinct, and is only known from Latham's 

 description, and from the description and figure of the head pub- 

 lished by von Pelzeln. Latham described a specimen which was 

 in the possession of Governor Hunter ; and von Pelzeln found a 

 figure of this bird among the papers left by the traveller Ferdinand 

 Bauer, who visited Norfolk Island. Besides the very curious 

 shnpe of the bill, the absence of any bars on the tail distinguishes 

 this species from the others. 



