422 



PSITTACID^!. 



figs. 2, 3 (feet), p. 305; Rchmv. fy Sctol Journ. f. Orn. 1880, 

 p. 195 * 



Adult. Upper parts brown, with a greyish tinge ; underparts 

 paler ; face and throat black ; the rest of the head and the hind 

 neck pale grey, with a bluish tinge ; wings dark brown ; upper and 

 under wing-coverts like the back ; tail like the back, but the basal 

 third of the lateral tail-feathers whitish : bill red ; feet reddish 

 brown. Total length about 14-6 inches, wing 9, tail 6-3, bill T7, 

 height of the bill 1-35, tarsus 0*95. 



Hah. Reunion Island. 



This bird is now extinct and only two specimens of it are pre- 

 served, one in the Museum of Paris and the other in that of 

 Vienna ; the latter, which was once in the Leverian Museum, is 

 partially affected by albinism. In 1834 Hahn figured a specimen 

 then living in the Menagerie of the King of Bavaria ; unfortunately 

 everv trace of it has been lost. 



34. TANYGNATHUS. 



Type. 

 Tanygnathus, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 501 (1832) . . T. megalorhynchus. 

 Erythrostomus, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 300 (1837) . . T. megalorhynchus. 



Range. From the Philippines through the Sooloo and Sanghir 

 Islands to Celebes, the Moluccas, the Tenimber Islands, the North- 

 western Papuan Islands, and the north-western coast of New 

 Guinea. 



Key to the Species. 



a. A distinct black band from the forehead to the 



eyes ; pileum and upper part of the cheeks 



tinjjed with bluish gramineus, p. 423. 



b. No distinct black band from the forehead to 



the eye3. 

 a'. Vertex and occiput blue in the adult birds, 

 green in young ones ; median wing- 

 coverts black, with broad golden-brown 

 edges ; scapulars green, tinged with blue . . luconensis, p. 424. 



* Linna?us identified his Psittacus obscitrus with P. mascarinns, Briss., and 

 the following quotations have been attributed to this species, but ihe evidence 

 is against this identification : — 



Psittacus obscurus, Hasselg. Iter. p. 236 (1757) ; Linn. S. N. i. p. 140, 



n. 4 (partim) (1766) ; id. Mantiss. p. 524 (1771) ; Gm. 8. N. i. p. 314, 



n. 4 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn, i. p. 84, n. 8 (1790); Shaw, Gen. Zool. 



viii. 2, p. 400 (1S11); Vieill.K.D. xxv. p. 342 (1817); Kuhl, Consp. 



Psitt. p. 9G (1820); Vieill, Enc. MM. iii. p. 1384 (1823); Wagl. Man. 



Psitt. p. 739 (1832) (av. dub.) ; A. § E. Newt. Ibis, 1876,' p. 285 ; Forbes, 



Ibis, 1879, p. 306. 

 Obscure Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 206 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. Ill 



(1822). 



