APPENDIX. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES OF PARROTS. 



Dr. Finsch at the end of his ' Monograph of Parrots ' gives an 

 Appendix containing doubtful species which have been named and 

 described by different authors ; I have been able to identify a few 

 of them*, but the majority are either fabulous birds, or so badly 

 described as to defy identification ; still they cannot be ignored 

 in a general Catalogue. I divide them for convenience' sake, as 

 has been done by Dr. Finsch, into long-tailed and short-tailed 

 species. 



A. Long-tailed Species. 



1. PSITTACUS ATEE. 



Ararauna ou Machao, De Laet, Descr. des Ind. Occident, p. 490 (1630). 



Ara noir, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. \i. p. 202 (1779). 



Black Maccaw, Lath. Sun. i. p. 206 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 110 



(1822). 

 Psittacus ater, Gm. S. A", i. p. 314, n. 54 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 84, 



n. 7 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 399 (1811); Bechst. Kurze Ucb. 



p. 66(1811-12); Kuhl, Consp. Fsitt. p. 94 (1820); Finsch, Papag. ii. 



p. 907 (1858). 



Blackish, with a strong gloss of green ; reddish eyes and bill and yellow 

 legs. 



Hub. Guiana. 



2. Aica, sp. 



Ara sp., Humboldt, Beise Acq. Gctj. <jr. iv. p. 6 (1860) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. 

 p. 935 (1868) ; id. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 128. 



"In one of the huts of the Pacimonales (San Francisco Solano, on the left 

 side of the Casiquiaiv) we bought an Ara, about 17 inches long, and of an 

 entirely purple plumage, like tho Psittacus macau." 



Dr. Finsch rightly says that if the information is correct, the bird must 

 bo new ! 



* Psittacus gramineus, Gm., = Tayiygnathus gramincus; "Parrot from Lord 

 Howe's Island," Phill., — Cyanorhamphus svbflavescens, Salvad. ; " Parroquet 

 from Ahicaulay's Island,'' Phill., = Ot/anorhamphtts cyanurus, Salvad. 



