51. NYMPHICUS. 591 



1. Nyinphicus cornutus. 



Horned Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 248, n. 48, pi. 8 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. 



ii. p. 172, pi. 25 (1822) ; Cook's Voy. pi. on p. 110. 

 Psittacus cornutus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 327, n. 81 (1788) ; Bechst. 



Kurze Ueb. p. 78, pi. 10 (1811); Vieill. N. I), xxv. p. 357 (1817) ; 



Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 45 (1820) ; Ranz. Elem. di Zool. iii. 2, p. 41, 



tav. 5. f. 4 (1821) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1393, pi. 224, f. 3 (1823) ; 



Voigt, Cur. Uebers. p. 750 (1831). 

 Psittacus bisetis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p.102, n. 5G (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. 



Zool. viii. 2, p. 452 (1811) ; Forst. MS.; id. Icon. ined. tab. 43; 



id. Deser. An. p. 258 (1844). 

 Platycercus cornutus, Viy. Zool. Joum. i. p. 528 (1825) ; Stej)h. Gen. 



Zool. xiv. 2, p. 123 (1826) ; Viy. Zool. Joum. iii. p. 245 (1827); 



G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 34, pi. 101 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. 



Brit. Mus. p. 7 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 161; id. List B. Prop. 



Isl. p. 28 (1859) ; Schley. Bierent, pp. 14, 75, with figure (1864) ; 



id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 95 (1865) ; Finsch, Papay. ii. p. 241 



(1868) ; Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 39 (1874) ; Gieb. 



Thcs. Orn. iii. p. 216 (1877). 

 Nymphicis bisetis, Wayl. Mon. Psitt. pp. 490, 522 (1832). 

 Plectolopbus cornutus, Bourj. Pen: pi. 12 (ex Latham) (1837-38). 

 Nymphicus cornutus, G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 86 (1855) ; Verr. 



'Rev. et May. de Zool. 1860, p. 387, 1862, p. 132; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 138, n. 8000 (1870) ; Marie, Act. Soc. Lin a. 



Bord, xxvii. p. 327 (1870) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 361 ; E. L. § E. L. C. 



Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 253 ; Tristr. Pois, 1879, p. 181 ; Selat. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 550, pi. 44 (living in the Zool. Gaxd.) ; Oust. Bull. 



Soc. Philom. Paris, iii. p. 218 (1879) ; E. L. $ E. L. C. Layard, 



Ibis, 1882, pp. 524, 543 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1882, pp. 408, 409, pi. xxvi. 



f . 1 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 421 ; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 



p. 332 (1883); Schal. Joum. f. Orn. 1884, pp. 96, 246: Tristr. 



Cat. Coll. B. pp. 77, 78 (1889). 



Psittacus , Jouan, Mem. Soc. Cherb. ix. p. 94 (1863). 



Cyanorhamphus cornutus, Rchmv. Joum. f. Orn. 1881, p. 44 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 44) ; id. Voyelbild. t. xxiii. f. 2 (1878-83). 



Adult male. Green, underneath paler, yellowish green ; pileuni 

 red, or rather the feathers black with crimson tips ; two long and 

 narrow feathers turning backwards black, with red tips ; nape and 

 ear-coverts golden yellow ; rump washed with yellow ; face, or 

 lores, region round the eyes, and posterior part of the cheeks black, 

 posterior and lower part of the cheeks yellowish green like the 

 breast ; under tail-coverts green, washed with bluish ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and outer webs of the primaries deep blue ; quills 

 underneath and on tho iuner web black ; under wing-coverts green, 

 with a bluish tinge ; tail above blue, green at the base, the feathers 

 with light tips ; tail underneath blackish, paler or greyish towards 

 the tips of the feathers : irides orange ; bill black, top of the upper 

 mandible bluish ; feet grey-brown. Total length about 14 inches 

 win- 6-7, tail 6-7, bill 092, tarsus 0-79. 



Female. Like the male, only smaller. 



Young. The nape and the ear-coverts less yellow and more green ; 

 the light tips of the tail-feathers, especially underneath, have a 

 yellowish tinge : the bill, in the dried skin, horny whitish. 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



