590 psittacld^;. 



14. Cyanorhamphus malherbei. 



Cyanorhamphus malherbi, Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, 

 p. 98 (Habitat inconnu ; type in the Museum of Metz) ; id. Icon. 



p. 61 (young) (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 215 (1877). 

 Platycercus alpinus, Bull. Ibis, 1869, p. 39 ; id. Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. 



i. p. 109 (1869), ii. pp. 386, 389 (1869) ; Finsch, ibid. p. 389 ; id. 



Ibis, 1869, p. 378; Bull. Ibis, 1870, p. 450; Hutt. Tr. N. Zeal. 



Inst. v. p. 226 (1872) ; Sclat.P. Z. S. 1872, p. 795; Bull. B. New 



Zeal., Introd. p. xvi (1873) ; Finsch, Journ. f. Orn. 1874, p. 178 ; 



Bull. Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. xvi. p. 318 (1884) ; ' id. B. New Zeal. 2nd 



ed. i. p. 146, pi. — . fig. post. (1888). 

 Platvcercus sp., Potts, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 185 (1872) ; Mort. 



ibid. p. 225 ; Hutt. ibid. p. 226 (1872). 

 Cyanorhamphus alpinus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 140, n. 8032 



(1870) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 795 (living in the Zool. Gard.) ; 



Rchnw. Voijelbild. t. xxi. f. 3 (1878-83) : id. Journ. f. Orn. 



1881, p. 44 (Consjp. Psitt. p. 44) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 



p. 333 (1883). 



Adult male. Resembles C. auriceps, but smaller, the frontal band 

 connecting the eyes orange, the crown very pale yellow ; under- 

 pays pale green, but with no yellow tiuge ; spot on the sides of the 

 rump orange ; tail underneath dusky grey, without any distinct 

 olive tiuge : bill bluish black, with the base of the upper mandible 

 silvery bluish ; feet pale brown. Total length 9 to 8*5 inches, wing 

 4-1, tail 4-5, bill 0-5 to 0*45, tarsus 0*66. 



Hob. South Island, New Zealand. 



Any one who examines Souance's figure of his C. malherbi will 

 agree that there is no difficulty in identifying I. alpinus, Bull., 

 with it. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Otago, South Island. Sir W. Buller [P.]. 



51. NYMPHICUS. 



Type. 



Nymphicus, Wayl. Mon. Psitt. p. 490 (1832) N. cornutus. 



Piectolophus, Bourj. Pen: pi. 12 (1837-38) N. cornutus. 



Range. From Now Caledonia to the Loyalty Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crest of two black feathers, tipped with red ; a 



yellow nuchal collar connecting the ear-coverts ; 



pileum red ; face black cornutus, p. 591. 



b. Crest of six turned-up dark green feathers, tipped 



with paler green ; no nuchal collar ; middle of 



the forehead red ; face dark green urceensis, p. 592. 



