On an undescrihed Parrot from the Island of Rodriguez. 31 



cipitalis. Two of them measured -58 by "48 and 'o7 by -45. 

 They were taken on the 4th of June. 



In conclusion, I hope that other ornithologists will take a 

 little pains to supply the remaining blanks in the informa- 

 tion we have of the nests and eggs of this interesting group. 

 There remain P. magnirostris, P. fuscatus, P. tristis, P. virida- 

 nus, P. affinis, P. indiciis, Reguloides trochiloides, R. viridi- 

 pennis, R. erochroa, R. maculipennis, and R. castaneiceps. 



P. magnirostris, P. viridanus, and P. affinis breed in Cash- 

 mere, and P. tristis in Ladak. I saw P. indicus in great numbers 

 ascending the hills towards Simla about the end of April ; and 

 I once shot one at Almorah, in May 1868 ; but they go far 

 beyond that place to breed, to the immediate neighbourhood 

 of the gi'eat snowy ranges, to find a climate as cold as that of 

 Siberia. 



IV. On an undescrihed Bird from the Island of Rodriguez. 

 By Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



Leguat iu his charmin"; work * several times incidentally 

 mentions amoog the consolations which he and his fellow-exiles 

 found in the Island of Rodriguez, the abundance of "Perro- 

 quets." In the first passage (i. p. 67) he records their predi- 

 lection for the nuts of a tree somewhat like an olive; in the 

 second (i. p. 107) he speaks of their being " verds & bleus," 

 " sur tout de mediocre & d^egale grosseur/^ and having flesh 

 not less good than that of young Pigeons ; in the third (i. p. 132) 

 he states that some of them were instructed by his company, and 

 that they took one, which spoke French and Flemish, with them 

 to Mauritius. 



The second of the passages just cited is so vague as to raise 

 the question whether there were green Parakeets and blue 

 Parakeets, or only Parakeets possessing a combination of both 

 colours ; and the solution of the doubt would require the dis- 

 crimination of judges better than those who had to hear the 

 famous case of ' Stradling versus Stiles,^ the issue whereof was 



* Voyages et Avantures cle Francois Leguat, &c. London : 1708. 

 (First edition quoted.) 



