102 CACATUID.E. 



To the Cacatuidce has heen assigned by Prof. A. Milne-Edwards 

 the following extinct species, but, according to Prof. A. Newton 

 (in litt.), it seems that its place in the system is far from being 

 satisfactorily established ; geographical distribution is not in favour 

 of Lopliopsittacus belonging to the Cacatuidce. 



LOPHOPSITTACUS. 



Type. 



Lophopsittacus, Netvt. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 350 L. mauritianus. 



Lophopsittacus mauritianus. 



Broad-billed Parrot, Oioen, Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. p. 53 (1866). 

 Psittacus mauritianus, Owen, Ibis, 1866, p. 168 ; id. Ami. Sc. Nat. 



(5) vi. pp. 88-90, pi. 3. ff. 4, 5 (under mandible) (1866) ; A . Milne- 



Edw. ibid. pp. 91, 100 et seq. (1866), xix. art. 3, p. 25, pi. 15. 



ff. 1, la, lb (tibia) (1874). 

 Psittacus (Lophopsittacus) mauritianus, A. Neiot. P. Z. S. 1875, 



pp. 349, 350. 

 Lophopsittacus mauritianus, Newt. Enc. Brit. (ed. 9) iii. p. 732, 



ff. 44, 46 (rough sketch of the living bird) (1875) ; A. e/ E. Newt. 



Ibis, 1876, pp. 282, 289 ; E. Newt. Trans. Norf. # Norw. Nat. 



Soc. iv. p. 550 (1888). 



A " frontal crest and wing so short as possibly to be inadequate 

 for flight " (A. Neivton). 



This bird, which formerly existed in Mauritius, is known only from 

 its osseous remains, a considerable number of which have been found 

 deposited with those of the Dodo in the peat of the Mare aux Songes ; 

 to it has been referred the original of a rough drawing in the MS. 

 journal of an old Dutch voyager. 



1. MICR0GL0SSUS. 



Type. 

 Psittacus, sect. Probosciger, Kuhl*, Consp. Psitt.y. 12 



(1820) M. aterrimus. 



Solenogiossus, Ranz.~f Elem. di Zool. iii. pt. 2, p. 18 



(1821) M. aterrimus. 



Microglossus, Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, MS. ; Vieill. Gal. 



des Ois. i. p. 47,' pi. 50 (1821-23)t M. aterrimus. 



Microglossum, Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 63 (1825). 

 Microglossa, Voigl, Cuv. Uebers. p. 47 (1831) ; Sclat. 



Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 166 (1858). 

 Eurhynchus, " Lair.," Less. Tr. d'Om.-p. 183 (1831) 



(ex Latreille, Fam. Regn. An. p. 76, 1825). 

 Macroglossum, Temm. Coup d'CEil gin. sur les Poss. 



Ncerl. iii. p. 405 (1849). 



Range. The Papuan Islands and North Australia. 



* Probosciger is not a generic name, but a term used by Ktthl for bis 

 sect. yi. of tbe genus Psittacus. 



t Solenogiossus, Ranz., has certainly the priority over Microglossus, Geoffr., but 

 it conveys quite a false idea of the structure of tbe tongue. 



\ The genus Microglossus was established by Vieillot after Etienne Geoffroy 

 St.-IIilaire, who, in a memoir "Sur les Appareils de la Deglutition et du Gout 



