610 APPENDIX. 



Size of a Dove. General colour green, but yellower beneath ; the quills are 



own beneath, with the inner margins very pale, which gives the appearance 

 of the wing being longitudinally striped with pale lines ; tail cuneiform, a little 

 longer than the body. 



Hab. Uncertain. 



It has been supposed that the above description applies to Psittacus pal- 

 marum, Gm., but the dimensions do not agree. 



26. Charmosyna samoensis. 



Oharmosyna samoensis, Harfl. Orn. Centr.-Polyn., Einlcit. p. xxi (1867) ; 

 Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 233 (1868). 



Size of a Sparrow ; red and green, with the tail four times as long as the 

 body, red. 



Hab. Olajava (=Samoa). 



Described by Kotzebue, Neue Eeise urn die Welt, 1823-26, i. p. 154 (1830). 



27. Tkichoglossus, sp. 



Trichoglossus (Lorius ?), sp inc., Layard, Ibis, 1878, pp. 274, 2S0 (Santo). 



"With a red breast, and about the size of Lorius solitarius of Fiji " {Layard). 

 Hab. Santo, New Hebrides. 



B. Short-tailed Species. 



STAVOEINUS. T 



Stavorinius, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 4 (1850) S. paraguanus. 



Stavorinus, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 155, gen. 58 . S. paraguanus. 



28. Stavorinus paraguanus. 

 Paragua, Marcqr. Hist. Bras. ix. p. 207 (1648); Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 



p. 248 (1779); Licht. Abh. k. Ak. Wiss. Bed. 1816-17, p. 167. 

 Lorius brasiliensis, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 229 (1760). 

 Paraguan Lory, Lath. Syn. i. p. 277, n. 83 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. ii. 



p. 232 (1822). 

 Psittacus paraguanus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 336, n. 104 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 i. p. 117, n. 105(1790); Shaw, Gen. Zool. vm. 2, p. 532(1811); Bechst. 

 Lath. Ueb. p. 94 (1811-12); Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 313 (1817); Kuhl, 

 Consp. Psitt. p. 95 (1820); Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1366 (1823) ; Desm. 

 Diet. 8c. Nat. xxxix. p. 128 (1826) ; Hahv, Orn. Atl, Papag. p. 93, t. 72 

 (1840); Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 920 (1868). 

 Psittacodis paragua, Wagl. Mori. Psitt. p. 574 (syn. emend.), t. xxiii. (1832). 

 Eclectus paragua, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 418, n. 3 (syn. emend.) (1845). 

 Eclectus paraguanus, part., G. B. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 67 (1859). 

 Stavorinius paragua, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 4 (syn. emend.) (1850). 

 Stavorinus paragua, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 155, n. 247 ; id. 



Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 259 (partim ?). 

 Psittacodis stavorinus, part., G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 154, n. 8197 

 (1870). 

 Shining black ; middle of the back, breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts 

 red; some of the tibial feathers yellowish : bill blackish ; feet white-grey ; round 

 the eyes red ; iris grey-brown. Size of Eclectus grandis. 

 Hab. Brazil! 

 This bird has much the appearance of Dasyptilus pesqueti (Less.). 



29. Psittacus guineensis. 



Yellow-breasted Lory, Lath. Syn. i. p. 276, n. 82 (1781) {ex Miller); id. 

 Gen. Hist. ii. p. 231 (1822). 



