34. TANTGNATHTTS. 423 



')'. No Line colour on the head, which is always 

 wholly green ; no broad golden-brown 

 ^ edges to the median upper wing-coverts. 

 a". Median upper wing-coverts edged with 

 pure golden yellow. 

 a'". Scapulars blackish ; median upper 

 wing-coverts black, edged with yellow; 

 .smaller upper wing-coverts also black, 

 but edged with blue ; underparts dis- 

 tinctly yellowish megabrhgnchus,-p.42G. 



V . Scapulars green, tinged more or less 

 with blue. 

 «'. Median upper wing-coverts black ; 

 smaller ones green, edged with 



blue affinis, p. 428. 



b\ Median and smaller upper wing- 

 coverts green, the last edged with 



. blue subaffinus, p. 429. 



b". Median and greater upper wing-coverts 



edged with yellowish green ; bill red in 



the adults, whitish in the young birds. 



c" . Head green, darker than the neck. 



c 4 . Upper back yellowish green in 



the adult, more or less deep 



green in the young bird, and 



with no blue edges to the 



feathers millleri, p. 430. 



d*. Upper back green, with the 

 edges of the feathers distinctly 



blue everetti, p. 432. 



el" '. Head yellowish green like the neck 

 and lighter than the body; green- 

 ish-yellow edges of the upper wing- 

 coverts very narrow burbielejei, p. 432. 



1. Tanygnathus graniineus. 



Perroquet d'Amboine, D'Anbent. PI. Enl. 8(i2. 



Grand Perroquet vert a tete bleue, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 122 



(1779). M i 



Amboma Parrot, Lath. Sun. i. p. 279 (1781) ; id. Gen. Hist, ii. p. 234 



(1822). * 



Psittacus gramineus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 338, n. Ill (1788) (ex PI E),l. 



862); Lath. 1ml. Orn. i. p. lis, „. no (1790); P Shaw, Gen. 



Zoo/, viii. p. 520 (1811) ; Bechst. Lath. Uebers. y. 95 (1811) ; Kidil, 



Consp. Petit, p. 84 (1820); Vieill. Luc Mm. p. 1366 (1823); 



:- Steph. Gen. ZooL xiv. p. 107 (1826) : Foigt, Cur. Uebers. p. 74:! 



(1831) : Temm. Lab/. Meth. p. 59 (1839) : Brehm, Man. d. Papag. 



t. 03 (1854); Finteh, Papag. ii. p. 923 & p. 929? (1868); Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 337 ( 1876). 

 Perroquet a calotte bleue, L mill. Pen: pi. 121 (1805). 

 Psittacodis gramineus, Wagl Man. Psitt. p. 510 (1832). 



Eclectus gramineus, G. L'. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 418, n. (1846). 



Tanygnathua gramineus, Bp. JU v. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. F ; 

 id. Newman >iia, 1*51!, Consj). Psitt. n. M57; G. P. Gr. List 

 Psitt, Brit. Mas. p. 68 (1869); id. P.'A.s. I860, p. 358; id. 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 158, n. 8261 (1870); Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



