from New Zealand and adjacent Islands. 579 



scream to attract attention and then drop the bird in mid- 

 air, when the two young ones would race for it and easily 

 catch it before it fell, and, as usual among birds, the most 

 alert and vigorous got the best of everything." 



75. Cyanorhamphus unicolor (Vigors). 



Platijcercus unicolor Buller, B. New Zeal. i. pts. iv.-vi. 

 p. 148 (1888). 



Cyanorhamphus unicolor Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xx. 

 p. 581 (1891); Lorenz-Liburnau, Ann. llofmus. "Wien, xvii. 

 p. 316 (1902). 



a-c. ? adult. Antipodes I., 14th January, 1901. 



d. $ adult. Antipodes I., 15th July, 1001 [Commander 

 J. P. Bollestou). 



The Antipodes Parroquet has the iris red. It is a. 

 common bird on the island (F. IF. Hutton). 



76. Cyanorhamphus erythrotis (Wagl.). 

 Cyanorhamphus erythrotis Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. 



p. 586 (1891). 



Cyanorhamphus hoclistetteri (Reisch.) ; Salvad. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xx. p. 577 (1891) ; Lorenz-Liburnau, Ann. Hof- 

 mus. Wien, xvii. p. 315 (1902). 



a, b. $ adult. Antipodes I., 14th January, 1901. 



c. Adult. Antipodes I., 15th July, 1901. 



d. Adult. Antipodes I. Presented by Lieut. Kennett 

 Dixon, R.N. 



e. $ adult. Antipodes I., 29th October, 1899. Presented 

 by Commander R. F. Ayscough, B.N. 



/. Adult. Antipodes I. Presented by W. F. Brockholes, 

 Esq. 



The Bed-eared Parroquet has the iris red, the bill blue, 

 black at the tip, and the legs and feet black. 



This is a common species on Antipodes Island, where a 

 yellow variety with the wings and tail-feathers nearly white 

 was captured and kept alive in a cage. It had very little 

 blue on the wings, but all the red parts of the plumage were 

 normal (F. W. Hutton). 



Commander Ayscough informs us that the male mentioned 



