35. PAL2E0RNIS. 447 



y 4 . Ad. ak. [Luzon.]. M. Athlin, Esq. [P.]. 



8*. Ad. Bk, Port Elizabeth *. J. C. Packard, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 a . Ad. st. (yellow var.). Zoological Society's 



Coll. 

 b 5 . J ad. sk. (var. ■with Zoological Society's 



a black head). Coll. 



c s ,d 5 ,e\ Skeletons. 

 f 5 , (/. Bones of the trunk. 



8. Palaeornis docilis. 



Psittacus cubicularis, Hasselq. Reise nach Palastina, p. 292 (1762) 



(^Ethiopia). 

 Psittacus docilis, Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 343 (1817) (Senegal) ; id. Enc. 



Meth. iii. p. 1384 (1823). 

 Psittacus frenatus, Illig. Mm. Berol. ; Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 6 (1823) 



(Africa). 

 Palaeornis inornatus, Vig, Zool. Journ. v. p. 274 (1830) (£, Africa). 

 Palaeornis torquatus, Denk. $■ C'lapp. {nee Linn.) Nan: Trav., App. 



p. 197 (1820) (Coast of Senegal, Central Africa) ; Ritpp. Neite 



Wirbelth, pp. 62, 63 (1833) ; Sw. B. of West Afr. ii. p. 174, fig. 



on the frontispiece (1637) : Allen cj- Thorns. Nan: E.iped. Niger, 



i. p. 311 (1848) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 219 (Kordofan) ; Heugl. 



Uebers. p. 46 (1855) ; Hart 1. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 195; Brehm, 



Journ. f. Om. 1855, pp. 485, 486, 1857, pp. 84, 88, 381, 383 ; 



Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 166 (1857); Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1858, 



pp. 404, 408 ; Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 262 : Brehm, Journ. f. 



Orn. 1862, pp. 37, 294, 305 ; Brehm, Habesch, p. 362 (1863) ; Schleff. 



Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 80 (partim) (1864) ; Hartin. Journ. f. Orn. 



1864, pp. 144, 227; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 17 (partim) (1868); 



Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 280 (1869) (Anseba) ; Blyth, Ibis, 



1870, p. 162; Finsch u. Hartl. Fog. O.-Afr. p. 871 (1870); Blanf. 



Geol. $ Zool. of Abyss, p. 305 (1870) ; Heugl. Om. N. O.-Afr. ii. 



2, p. clvii (1871) ; Sekleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 35 



(partim) (1874): Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 11 (partim) (1877); Pelz. 



Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, L881, pp. 153, 615 (Central Africa). 

 Palaeornis cubicularis, Ritpp. 6'yst. Ueb. p. 95 (1845) (Kordofan, 



Senaar, Abyssinia): Hartl. tyst. Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 84 (1844) ; 



Ferret et Galin. Voy. Abyss, iii. p. 188, n. 27 (1847): Heuyl. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1862, pp. 37, 294, 305; Brehm, lllustr. Thierl. i. 



p. 67 (1865); Antin. <■ Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. iv. p. 404 



(1873). 

 Psittacus torquatus, Lefevre, Abyss., Ois. p. 128 (1845-185U). 

 Palaeornis parvirostris, Bp. Ret: et Mag. de Zool. 1.854, p. 152, n. 141 



(descr. nulla) ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 157 (Abys- 

 sinia) ; Bp, Naumannia, L856, Consp. Psitt. n. 139 (Abyssinia); 



G. R. Or. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 19 (1859) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. 



Lisb. Psittaci, p. 14 (Mozambique !) (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list. 



ii. p. 142, n. 8058 (1870). 



* The bird from Port Elizabeth agrees with the Indian specimens, and we 

 learn from Layard (B. of S. Afr. p. 230, note) that Palaornis torqitatu has been 

 introduced into South Oape Colony and breeds there. 



