592 rSITTACIDJ3. 



Donibea, N. Caledonia, June (E. Z. Tweeddale Coll. 



Layard). 



Moindou, N. Caledonia, Nov. (E. Tweeddale Coll. 



L. Layard). 



New Caledonia. Tweeddale Coll. 



New Caledonia. Purchased. 



New Caledonia. Purchased. 



2. Nyrnphicus uvaeensis. 



Nymphicus cornutus, E. L. § E. L. C. Layard (nee Gin.), Ibis, 1880, 



p. 231 (Uvea). 

 Nymphicus uvaeensis, E. L. ty E. L. C. Layard, P. Z. S. 1882, 



p. 408, pi. 26. f. 2 (Uvea) ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1882, p. 421 ; id. List 



Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 332 (1883) ; Rchnw. u. Schal. Joum. f. Orn. 



1883, p. 416 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll, B. p. 78 (1889). 

 Cyanorhamphus uvaeensis, Rchnw. Voyelbild, Nachtr. 11 (1883). 



Adult male. Grass-green ; underneath yellowish green ; rump 

 with a yellowish tinge ; crest formed by six upturned feathers dark 

 green, with lighter tips, the feathers on the forehead at the base of 

 the crest dark green, with red tips ; face, or lores, cheeks, and chin 

 dark green ; bastard-wing, primary -coverts, and outer webs of the 

 primaries blue ; tail greeu, changing into blue towards the tip ; the 

 three lateral tail-feathers of each side blue, with paler tips and 

 very little green towards the base: irides orange ; bill black, top 

 (or base) of the upper mandible bluish ; feet black. Total length 

 about 12*5 inches, wing 6"1, tail 6, bill 0-91, tarsus 0-61. (Tristram 

 Coll.) 



Female. Like the male, only a little smaller. 



Hob. Uvea, and perhaps also Lifu, Loyalty Islands. 



a. $ ad. sk. Uvea, Loyalty Islands. Zoological Society. 



52. NANODES. 



Type. 



Nanodes, Viy. § Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 274 



(1826) (nee Schonherr, 1826) N. discolor. 



Lathamus, Less. Tr. tfOrn. p. 20o (1831) (=Nanodes, 

 Viy. §• Horsf.). 



Euphema, Wayl. Mon. Psitt. p. 492 (1832) ( = Nanodes, 

 Vig. $ Horsf.). 



(Cf. Forbes, P. Z. 8. 1879, pp. 166-174.) 



Range. South-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 



1. Nanodes discolor. 



Pied-shouldered Parrakeet, Phill Voy. Botany Bay, p. 269, pi. 41 

 (1789) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 90 (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. ii. 

 p. 176 (1822). 



Psittacus discolor, Shaw in White's Voy. p. 263, pi. 49 (1790); 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. Siqypl. p. xxi (1802) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, 

 p. 466 (1811) ; Beckst. Kurze Ueb. p. 82 (1811) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. 

 p. 346 (1817) ; Euhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 48 (1820) ; Sio. Zool. III. i. 



