50. CYANORTIAMPIIUS. 579 



Cyanorhainphus ulietanus. 



Society Parrot, Lath. Sun. i. p. 250 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 175 



P-822). 

 Psittacus ulietanus, Gm. S. N i. p. 328, n. 85 (1788) (ex Latham) ; 



Lath. Ind. Om. i. p. 103, u. Gl (1790) ; Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 79 



(1811); Vieill. N.D. xxv. p. 358 (1817); Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. 



pp. 7, 44 (1820) ; Vieill. Em. Meth. iii. p. 1394 (1823). 

 Platycercus ulietanus, Viy. Zool. Journ. i. p. 533, Suppl. pi. 3 (1825), 



iii. p. 245 (1827) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 33 (1846) ; 



Hartl. Wiegm. Archiv, 1852, p. 132; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, 



p. 169; Pelz. Sitzb. k. Ah. Wiss. Wien, xx. p. 166 (1856); G. Ii. 



Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Jfws.p. 12(Taima!) (1859); id. Cat.B. Trop. 



1st. p. 29 (1850) ; Gieb. T/ies. Om. iii. p. 220 (1877) ; Bull. B. 



New Zeal. 2nd ed. i. p. 145 (1888). 

 Cyanorhanipkus ulietanus, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, 



n. 188; id. Naumannia, 1856, C'onsj). Psitt. n. 103; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 140, n. 8025 (1870) ; Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, 



p. 41 (Co)isp. Psitt. p. 41) ; id. Voyelbild. Nachtr. n. 7 (1883). 

 Platycercus ulieteanus, Finsch, Journ. f. Orn. 1867, p. 325; id. 



Papaff. ii. p. 271 (1868) ; Pet. Ibis, 1873, p. 30 ; Layard, Ibis, 



1880, p. 339 ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. d. naturh. Hoffmus. 1888, p. 38 



(type specimen). 

 Platycercus tannaensis, Finsch, Papaff. ii. p. 272 (1868). 

 Psittacus fuscatus, in Mvp. Vindob., Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 30. 

 ? Platycercus forsteri, part., Bull. B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. i p. 145 



(1888). 



Adult. Olive-brown, the head brown-black; ramp and the basal 

 upper tail-coverts brown-red, the longest upper tail-coverts olive- 

 brown like the back ; underparts olive-yellow ; quills, primary- 

 coverts, under wing-coverts, and tail-feathers grey : bill black, with 

 the base of the upper mandible silvery grey ; feet brown. Total 

 length about 11 inches, wing 5-3, bill 0-8, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. Ulietea, Society Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Society Islands *. Bullock Coll. 



2. Cyanorhainphus erythronotus. 



Red-rumped Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. i. p. 249, n. 50 (1781) ; id. Gen. 



/list. ii. p. 174 (1822). 

 ? Pacific Parrot, var. B, Lath. Syn. i. p. 253 (1781). 

 Psittacus nova; seelandire, Gm, {nee Sparrm.) . c X. i. p. 828, n. 83 



(1788) (ex Latham) ; Bechst. Kurze Uebeit. y. 7'-> (1811). 

 :- Psittacus pacificus, var. y, Gm. s. N. i. p. 829 | L788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Orn. i. p. 101 (1790). 

 P.-ittacus zealandicus, Lath, (nee Sparrm.) Ind. Orn. i. p. 102, u. 58 



(17'JO) ; T'ui/l. N. 1). xxv. p. 357 1 1817) ; id, Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1302, 



pL 226. f. 2 (1823). 



* The locality "Tanna" attributed to this specimen in Gray's 'List of 

 Parrots' is oertainly wrong ; in one of the old registers of the British Museum 

 ■' New Holland" is given aa the locality, which, for sorno reason, was after- 

 wards corrected, in Gray's haud writing, into "Tanna." 



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