84 Dr. G. Hartlaub on Agapornis swiuderniana. 



description of a very young specimen of Lophoictinia isura, 

 and states that the bird which he had previously described in 

 his work as ''young/' proved not to be ''really immature." 



I have already alluded, in ' The Ibis ' for 1870, p. 536, to 

 a specimen of this Kite in the Norwich Museum, which there 

 is reason to believe was killed in New Zealand, where, if such 

 was really the fact, it can only have occurred as an accidental 

 visitor. 



[To be continued.] 



V. — On Agapornis swindernaina. By Dr. G. Hartlaub. 



Agapornis swinderniana (Kuhl). 



Psittacus swindernianus , Kuhl, Consp. Psittac. (1820) p. 

 62, t. 2 (fig. mala). 



Psittacula swinderniana, Wagl. Monogr. (1832) p. 621. 

 Agapornis swinderniana, Selby, Nat. Libr, vol. vi. (1836) 

 p. 118, t. 2 (fig. mala); Bourj. Perr. t. 98 (Kuhl!); Brehm, 

 Papag. t. 36 (Kuhl!). 



Poiocephalus swindernianus, Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 301. 

 Psittacula swindereni, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 632 ; Cab. 

 Journ. Orn. 1877, t. 5. f. 2 (fig. bona) ; Cab. & Reichen. Orn. 

 Centralbl. 1876, p. 26, et 1878, pp. 64. 



? Leona Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 263, unde 

 Agapornis pict a, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 169. 

 Diagn. Lsete psittacino-viridis ; semitorque nuchali nigro, 

 alteroque inferiore ex fulvescente luteo ; colli lateribus, 

 pectore et interscapulio viridescente lavatis ; tergo infe- 

 riore, uropygio et supracau^dalibus Isetissime cyaneis ; 

 rectricibus duabus intermediis viridibus, reliquis in di- 

 midio basali scarlatinis, fascia anteapicali latiore nigra, 

 ipsis apicibus viridibus ; rostro obscure corneo-cserule- 

 scente. Long. tot. 15 cent., al. 9 cent. 4 mill. 

 In the year 1820 Kuhl described and figured, in his well- 

 known 'Conspectus Psittacorum,' a new Parrakeet from a 

 specimen in the Laugier collection at Paris, which he named, 

 after the famous Professor van Swinderen, of the Groningen 

 University, Psittacus swindernianus. This unique type spe- 



