50. CYANORHAMPIiUS. 581 



3. Cyanorhamphus unicolor. 



Platvcercus unicolor, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 24 ; id. Phihs. Mag. 

 1831, p. 303 ; Wayl. Man. Psitt. p. 740 (1832) ; Lear, Parr. pi. 25 

 (1832) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 19 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 14 (1859) ; id. Ibis, 1802, p. 229 ; Bull. Essay on 

 the Orn. N. Zeal. p. 12 (1802); id. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 324; 

 Finsch, ibid. p. 325 ; id. Papag. ii. p. 289 (1868) ; Bull. Tr. N. 

 Zeal. Inst. vi. p. 121 (1873) ; id, B. New Zeal. p. 59 (1873) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 220 (1877) ; Hutt. Ibis, 1886, p. 385 (Anti- 

 podes Island) ; Bull. B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. i. pp. 145, 148 (1888). 



Psittacus platycercus viridis unicolor, Bourj. Perr. pi. 34 (fig-, after 

 Lear's pi.) (1837-38). 



Cyanorhamphus unicolor, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, 

 n. 185; Souanci, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 213; Bp. Nau- 

 mannia, 1856, Comp. Psitt. n. 187 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140 

 n. 8024 (1870) ; Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 41 {Consp. Psitt. 

 p. 41) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 6 (1883). 



PPlatycercua fairchildii. Hector (in lift, 1886) (fide Bulkr). 



? Parrakeet (larger species), Ileischek, Tr. New Zeal. Inst. xxi. p. 387 

 (Antipodes Isl.) (1889). 



Adult male (type). General colour olive-green, brighter on the 

 forehead, sides of the head, and ear-coverts, lighter or yellowish on 

 the rump and underparts : the base of the outer web of the outer 

 primaries tinged with blue ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 bluish green on the inner webs, bright blue on the outer ; quills 

 underneath greyish brown ; under wing-coverts green ; tail above 

 dull green, underneath dull golden olive : bill black, silvery grey 

 towards the base of the upper mandible ; legs and feet brown. 

 Total length about 13 inches *, wing 6, tail about 6, bill 1-05, 

 tarsus 0*9. 



Female. Of smaller size and paler plumage than the male ; bill 

 greyish white, the upper mandible brownish black in its apical 

 portion, and with a clouded bluish spot in front of each nostril. 

 Wing o - 75 inches, culmen 1, tarsus 0-8. 



Ilab. Antipodes Island. 



I have seen, in the Museum of Cambridge, one of the specimens 

 lately collected by Capt. Fairchild in Antipodes Island ; it is not in 

 good condition, but it does not seem to differ from the type. 



a. rS ad. st. Unrecorded locality. Zoolog. Soc. Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



4. Cyanorhamphus novae zealandiae. 



Pacific Parrakeet, Lath. Styn. i. p. 252, with var. A, p. 253 (1781) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. ISO ( 1822). 

 Psittacus novffi zelandia, Sparrm. (nee Gm.) Mus. Carls, t. 28 (1787); 



* A specimen mentioned by Sir. W Boiler measures, according to Prof. 

 Hutton, 142d inches. 



