586 psittacid^:. 



9. Cyanorhamphus erythrotis. 



Platycercus pacificus, part., Vig. Zool. Juurn. i. p. 529, Suppl. pi. 1 



(1825) (Ins. Macquarriana). 

 Platycercus erythrotis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 526 (1832); G. R. Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 31 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 13 



(1859); id. Ibis, 1862, p. 228; Bull. Essay X. Zeal. Orn. p. 12 



(1865) ; id. Journ.f. Om. 1867, p. 324; Peh. Ibis, 1873, p. 31 ; 



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

 ? Platycercus pacificus, Bourj. {nee Gm.) Perr. pi. 36 (1838-39). 

 Cyanorhamphus erythrotis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, 



n. 186 ; Sonance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 213; Bp. Nau- 



mannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 191 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140. 



n. 8020 (1870) ; Rchnio. Vogelbild. in the text of C. novce zeelandice, 



t. xvi. f. 7 (1878-83); id. Joum. f. Om. 1881, p. 43 {Consp. 



Psitt. p. 43). 

 Platycercus novfe zeelandise, part., G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. 



p. 13, specim. d (1859) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 273 (part.) (1868) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 218 (part.) (1877). 

 Cyanorhamphus pacificus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140, n. 8028 



(1870). 



Similar to 0. novce zealandice, but larger ; the green colour paler 

 and more yellowish ; the blue colour of the bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts paler and mixed with green ; the outer primaries 

 have very little blue at the base of the outer webs, where the blue 

 colour is shaded with green ; the tail shorter, and of a much paler 

 olive underneath. Total length 12 inches, wing 5-6, tail 5-4, bill 

 0-8 to 0-71, tarsus 0-82 to 0-79. 



Hah. Macquarie Island. 



Obs. Of the first two specimens mentioned below, one lias a much 

 stronger bill, and this I take to be a male. 



a. Ad. sk. Macquarie Island. Massena Coll. 



b. Ad. st. Macquarie Island. Massena Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. [New Zealand." Zool. Soc. Coll. * 



10. Cyanorhamphus saisseti. 



Cyanorhamphus saisseti, Verr. et Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 

 1860, p. 387 ; Jouan, Mem. Soc. Cherbourg, ix. p. 228 (1863) ; G. R. 

 Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140, n. 8031 (1870)'; Marie, Act. Soc. Linn. 

 Bord. xxvii. p. 327 (1870) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 362 ; Layard, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 253, 1879, p. 109; Rchnu: Vogelbild. in the text of 

 C. nova zeelandice, t. xvi. f. 7 (1878-83) ; id. Joum. f. Orn. 



1881, p. 43 (Consp. Psitt. p. 43) ; E. L. $ E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, 



1882, pp. 524, 543 ; Tristr. ibid, p. 525 ; Salv. $ Sclat. ibid, (note) ; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 630, pi. xlvi. ; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 

 p. 333 (1883); Schalow, Journ.f. Orn. 1887, pp. 96, 246; Tristr. 

 Cat. Coll. B. p. 77 (1889). 



* I am not quite sure that this specimen really belongs to O. erythrotis, 

 although I do not know any other srjecies to which it may be attributed ; it has 

 the yellowish-green general colour with a brown tinge, which may be due to the 

 Ion" exposure in the Galleries of the Museum ; it is C. pacificus of Gray's 

 Hand-list, no. 8028. 



