43. AGAPORNIS. 509 



m. Ad. sk. Madagascar ( IV. Deans Cowan). Tweeddale Coll. 



7i-8. Ad. et imm, Rodriguez. ) 



sk. > Trans, of Venus Exped. 



I, u. Skeletons. Rodriguez. 



2. Agapornis taranta. 



Psittacua taranta, Stan//;/, Salt's Trav. Abyss., Append, p. lii (1814). 



Abyssinian l'arrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 18? (1822). 



Psittacula taranta, Lear, Pan: pi. 39 (1832) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. 



p. 423, n. 9 (1846) ; Horsf. ,y Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Comp. ii. 



p. 607 (1856-68) ; G. R. Gr. List 1'sitt. lint, Mus. p. 89 (1859) ; 



Heugl. Syst. Uebers. n. 472(1856); Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, 



p. 72 (1864); id. op. cit. Revue,?. 31 (1874). 

 Pattacus tarantre, Riipp. Neue WirbeUA. pp. 61, 62 (1835) ; Harris, 



The Highlands of JFth. ii. p. 413 (1844) (Shoa); Leferre, Voy. 



Abyss., Ois. p. 128 (1845-50). 

 PoicephahiB taranta, Sir. Class. B. ii. p. 301 (1837). 

 Psittacula taranta?, Bourj. Pen: pi. 99 (1837-38); Riipp. Syst. 



Ueb. Voy. N.O.-Afr. p. 95, n. 334 (1845); Ferret et Gallin. Voy. 



Abyss, iii. p. 188 (1847); Heityl. Faun. Roth. Meet: n. 195; id. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 196 ; Finsch, Papag. ii. 2, p. 634 (1868) ; 



id. Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 281 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. | Zool. Abyss. 



p. 304 (1870); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 330 (1877). 

 Agaporuis taranta, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 221 ; 



Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 217 ; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, 



Consp. Psitt. n. 223; Soiisa, Mus. Nae. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 20 (1809) ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 167, n. 8368 (1870). 

 Agaporuis tarantfe, Hew/1. Journ. f. Orn. 1802, p. 37 ; id. Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. i. p. 746 (1869), ii. 2, p. clviii (1873) ; Rchmv. Voqelhihl. 



t. xx. f. 2 (1873-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 257 {Consp. Psitt. 



p. 145) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 82 (1884) ; Gigl. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vi. p. 51 (1888) ; Salvad. ibid. p. 208 



(1888). 

 Paittaculus taranta?, Heuyl. Journ. f. Orn. 1802, pp. 293, 305. 



Adult male. Green ; sinciput, lores, and a ring of feathers round 

 the eves red; uropygium, upper tail-coverts, and underparts hright 

 green ; primaries brown, with a narrow green edge on the outer 

 web; secondaries, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts black; the 

 outermost greater wing-coverts also black, but tipped with green ; 

 under wing-coverts black ; tail green, with a broad subapical 

 black band, the inner web of the lateral tail-feathers towards 

 tlic base yellowish: "iris brown; bill red; feet lead-grey" 

 (Antinori). Total length 0-4 inches, wing 4, tail 1-9, bill 0-68, 

 tarsus 0" 15. 



Adult female. Wants the red on the front part of the head, which 

 is entirely green. 



Young male. Like the female. Gradually it shows the red feathers 

 first round the eyes and then on the forehead and Lores. 



Hab. North-easteru Africa, from Abyssinia to Shoa. 



a. Ad. st. Abyssinia. Parou Laugier Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Lord Mouutnorris [P.], 



