12. cb iBMoanropsis. 79 



orange; iris bright orange" (Richards). Total length 7 - 50 inches, 

 wing '■'>■!, tail :>'.'5, bill 0*5, tarsus 0*5. 



F, male. Very little red round the base of the bill. 



Hal,. New Hebrides. 



«. Ad.sk. Aneiteum. Cuming Coll. 



b. Jimni.sk. Tanna, Dec. (II. M.S. (JoiildColl. 



' Herald'). 



c,d. rf 2 ad. sk. Havanna Id., April. Capt. G. E. Richards 



C.]. 



9. Hypochavinosyna pygmsea. 



Pygmy Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. i. 1, p. 256, n. 60 (Otaheite) (1781 ) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 194 (1822). 

 Psittacua pygmseus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 330, n. 92 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Om. i. p. 106, n. 72 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 473(181 1 >; 



Beehst. Lath. Ueb. p. 82 ( 1 8 1 1 ) ; Vu-ill. N. I), xxv. p. 877 (1817) ; 



Kuhl, Consp. Psitt, p. 100 (1820): Vieill. Enc. Mm. iii. p. 1408 



(18:2.; i ; Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 744 (1832). 

 Trichoglossaa P pvgmseus, Pelz. Sitzb. Ak. Whs. Wien, xx. p. 165 



(1856) (Mus. Vienna); G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Rrit. Mas. p. 65 



(1859); id. Cat. B. Prop. Isl. p. 33(1859); Finsch, Papag. ii. 



p. 870 (18(S8): G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 156, n. 8230 (1870) ; 



Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 31, pi. i. ; Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 659 (1877) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 339 ( = palmarum, $ ) : Rchnw. Journ. f. 



Orn. 1881, p. 150 {Consp. Psitt. p. 86) (syn. emend.) ; id. VogettnTd. 



Nachtr. n. 32 (1883) ; Pelz. u. Lorenz, Ann. naturh. Hofmus. iii. 



p. 39 (1888). 



Very much like H. palmarum (Gm.), but with no red at the base 

 of the bill. 



Hah. Unknown. 



According to Mr. E. Layard, Latham's type, preserved in the 

 Museum of Vienna, is most likely a female of H. palmarum, and I 

 am much inclined to agree with him. 



12. CHARM0SYN0PSIS. 



Type- 



Charmosynopsis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 37 



(1877) C. pulchella. 



Range. New Guinea and Solomon Islands. 



A', y to the Sj)ecies. 



I. No yellow collar round the base of the neck. . . . pulchella, p. 79. 

 II. A yellow collar round the base of the neck .... margaritee, p. 81. 



1 . Charmosynopsis pulchella. 



Charmosyna pulchella, G. R. Gr. List psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 102 (1859) ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 158; Sclat. P. Z. S. i860, p. 227: G. R. 



