404 Count T. ISalvadori — Notes 



by Mivart *, with good illustrations by Mr. Keulcmans; but 

 there is not much new in the text, Mivart not having been 

 a specialist on the group. 



Mr. W. Rothschild and Dr. Hartert have given us some 

 excellent notes on the Papuan species of Parrots f, and 

 Dr. Reichenow has treated the African species in a masterly 

 way J. 



Dr. Hartert has published a paper " On the Genus Psitta- 

 cella" ('Ibis/ 1897, pp. 58-60, pi. iii.) and Dr. Martorelli 

 another, " On the Variations of a Lory (Eos fuscata), as 

 exhibited by specimens in the Turati Collection" ('Ibis/ 

 1897, pp. 61-63). 



I may mention here that I have had the opportunity of 

 specially studying the genus Pyrrhura, and have added to it 

 four species, three that are new (' Ibis/ 1900, pp. 667-674, 

 pi. xiv.) and a fourth previously insufficiently known. 



Last of all, Mr. Seth Smith, in 1903, published a work 

 with the following title: 'Parrakeets; being a Practical 

 Hand-book to those Species kept in Captivity .' I have not 

 had the advantage of seeing this work, but 1 suppose that it 

 is of a popular nature. 



I will now proceed with my additional notes in systematic 

 order. 



Fam. I. Nestorid^e (Cat, Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 4.) 

 Nestor septentrionalis Lorenz, Verb. z.-b. Cos. Wien, 

 1896, p. 198 (North Isl.) ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 1, sp. 3 

 (1900) ; Dubois, Syn. Av. p. 1054 (fasc. xiv. 1903). 



The original description of this species runs as follows : — 



N. septentrionalis. NestorimeridionaU Gmelin similis, sed 

 minor; vertice fusco (nee cano) ; remigibus secundariis 

 et tectricibus alee fuscis vix florescentibiis (sic) (nee 

 cyaneo-viridibus) ; cauda f usca, ad basin colore flavo 

 .'"dvata (non viridescens). 

 Hab. North Isl., New Zealand. 



* A Monograph of the Lories, or Brush-tongued Parrots, composing the 

 Family Loriidse. Pp. i-liii, 1-193, pis, Ixi. Folio, London, ls'.t-j. 

 1 Nov. Zool. viii. pp. 64 88 (1001). 

 | ])ii Vogel Afrikas, vol. ii, pp. 1 25. 



