39. ri'RKiiiiLorsis. 495 



Platycercus tabuensis, Viq. Zool. Joiim. i. p. 529 (1825), ii. p. 549 

 (1826), iii. p. 245 (1827) ; Lear, Parr, pi. 1U (1832) ; Gould, Syn. 

 11. Austr. pi.—, f. 2 (head) (18— ?) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, 

 n. 28 (syn. emend.) (1846); Mitch. P. Z. 8. 1849, p. 14 (Feejee 

 Tsl.) ; Pelz. Sitzb. k. Ah. Whs. J/7™, xx. p. 166 (1856) : G. R. Gr. 

 List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 11 (partim) (1859); id. 1MB. Trop.Isl. 

 p. 30 (partim) (1859); Schleg. THerent. p. 73 (1864); id. Mus. 

 P.-li. Psittaci, p. 88 (1864) ; Finsch u. Hartl, Faun. Centr.-Polyn. 

 p. 17 (partim) (1867); Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 231 (part.) (1868); 

 Finsch §■ Hartl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 545 (Tonga) (partim P) ; ii,l. Journ. 

 f. Or//. 1870, p. 123 (svn. excl.) ; Graffe, Journ. f. Orn. 1870, pp. 416, 

 "417 ; Pet. Ibis, 1873, p. 30; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Berne, 

 p. 30 (ind. n. 1) (1874) ; E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1875, p. 42-3 ; Salvia, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 143 (note); E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1876, pp. 143, 390, 

 391 ; id. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 500 ; Finsch, P. Z, S. 1877, pp. 729, 771 ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 220 (part.) (1877); Nehrk. Journ. f. Orn. 

 1879, p. 394 (egg) ; Moseley, Nat. ChaU. p. 292 (1879) ; Bchnw. 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 131 (Consp. Psitt. p. 07); Pelz. u. Lor. 

 Ann. k. naturh. Hofinus. 1888, p. 38. 



Platycercus atrogularis, Peak, U.S. Expl. Exp. p. ] 29, p]. 35 (1848) ; 

 Hartl. Wiegm. Archiv, L852, pp. L06, L32; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, 

 p. 108; Finsch u. Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1870, p. 123. 



Platycercus anna, Goxujh {nee Bourj.), P. Z. S. 1849, p. 14 ; G. Ii. Gr. 

 List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 11 (1859). 



Aprosmictus tabuensis, Bp. Rev. et Mac/, de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 1G4 ; 

 id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. a. 105 ; Cass. U.S. Expl. E.ip., 

 Mamm. <y Orn. p. 234 (1838). 



Aprosmictus atrogularis, Souance, Rei\ et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 211 ; 

 Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n, 168. 



Pyrrhulopsis atrigularis, Selat. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 158 (Ngau), 1876, 

 Pp. :;o7, 308. 



Pyrrhulopsis tabuensis, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 158 ; G. Ii. Gr. Hand- 

 'list. ii. p. 139, n. 8018 ( 1870) ; Sclat P. Z. S. 1873, p 683, 1875, p. 62, 

 1876, pp. 307, 308 ; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 334 (1883) ; 'Prist. 

 Cat. Cotl.B. p. 78 (1889). 



Platycercus (: j ) leari, Bp.,/2de G.R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 139 (1870). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and underparts dark cherry-red, face 

 darker ; a broad blue band across tbe nape ; back, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and wings green ; primaries and their coverts blue ; 

 under wing-coverts green; tail above blue, base of the central 

 feathers and of tbe outer webs of tbe lateral ones tinged with 

 green: "irides orange; bill and bet black" (Layard). Total 

 length 17 inches, wing 10, tail 9, bill |/3, tarsus 0"98. 



Female. Like the male, only smaller. 



Hab. Fiji Islands — Vanua Levu ; and introduced into Eooa 

 (Tonga Islands) from Fiji. 



a. Ad. st. Fiji Islands. LieutF.W.Gough[P/i. 



/.. Ad.sk. Fiji Islands. A. B. Gordon, Esq. 1'. . 



c. [-r ad.sk, Vanua Levu, October ('/'. Tweeddale Coll. 



Kleinschmidt). 



rf.rfad.sk. Ngau Isl., Fiji, October (F. Voyage of H.M.S. 



.1/. Rayner). 'Herald.' 



e. $ ad. sk. Bua, Fiji, .May (E. L. Tweeddale Coll. 



Layard). 



