46 loriid^e. 



black, smaller under -wing-coverts green ; tail-feathers green at the 

 tip, dark purple on the outer web, red on the inner one : bill and 

 feet red ; iris red, with an inner ring yellow. Total length 7 - 2 

 inches, wing 4*8, tail 2-7, bill 0'5, tarsus 0-49. {Tristram Coll.) 

 Hab. Washington and Fanning Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. [S. Sea Islands.] Laugier Coll. 



6. CORIPHILUS. 



Type. 



Coripkilus, Waal. Mon. Psitt. p. 494 (1832) C. taitianus. 



Brotogeris, Sw. {nee Vig.) Class. D. ii. p. 303 



(1837) C. taitianus. 



Coryphilus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 105. 

 Corythophilus, Agass. Nomencl. Zool. Ind. Univ. 



p. 101 (1846). 

 Coriophilus, Sundev. Meth. not. av. disp. Tent. 



p. 71 (1872). 



Mange. Society and Marquesas Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Dark blue ; cheeks, throat, and upper breast 



white taitianus, p. 40. 



b. Pale blue ; cheeks and throat blue, dotted 



with white ultramarinus, p. 48. 



1. Coriphilus taitianus. 



Petit Pemiche de l'Isle de Taiti, Daubent. PL Enl 455. f. 2. 



Psittacus peruvianus, Mull. S. N. Suppl. p. 80 (1776) ; Cass. Pr.Ac. 

 Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 241. 



L'Arimanon, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 175 (1779). 



Otahetian Blue Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. i. p. 255 (1781) ; id. Gen. Hist. 

 ii. p. 189 (1822). 



Psittacus cyaneus, Sparrm. Mus. Carl. fasc. ii. pi. 27 (var.) (1782) ; 

 Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 630 (1828). 



Psittacus taitianus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 329, n. 91 (1788) {ex PI. Enl. 

 455. f. 2) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 105, n. 70 (1790) ; Bechst. Kurze 

 Ueb. p. 80 (1811); Vieill. N. JD. xxv. p. 341 (1817) ; Kuhl, Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 68 (1820) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1383, pi. 225. f. 1 

 (1823) ; Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 295 (1826) ; Voigt, Cut: Uebers. p. 748 

 (1831). 



Psittacus varius, Gm. S. N. i. p. 337, n. 105 (1788) [ex Maerter, 

 Phys. Arb. der eintr. Fr. zu Wien, i. 2, p. 48, Taf. i. fig. 2 (1784) 

 (Siidsee)] ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 112, n. 90 (1790) ; Bechst. Kurze 

 Ueb. p. 90 (1812) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 381 (1817) ; Kuhl, 

 Consp. Psitt. p. 95 (1820); Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1411 (1823). 



Psittacus porphyrio, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 7 (1789) ; id. Gen. Hist. 

 viii. 2, p. 413, pi. 70 (1811). 



Psittacus taitianus, var. /3, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 105 (1790). 



Varied Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 93 (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. 

 ii. p. 219 (1822). 



