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I must also point out that, although each entry refers to a

coloured illustration, it does not always mean “ coloured plate ” in

the best sense. One cannot expect, in the coloured steel engravings

of the earlier works or in the chromos and coloured prints of popular

books, the excellence and life-like accuracy of sumptuous mono¬

graphs or other more modern hooks. However, each illustration

referred to is (as far as I know), within its limits, a good representa¬

tion of its subject.


The abbreviations are, in most cases, obvious, but the following

need perhaps explanation :


The sign /. means “ teste,” “ on the authority of.”


B. and C. Brabourne and Chubb’s ‘ List of the Birds of South

America ’ (1912).


SS. Seth Smith’s ‘ Parrakeets ’ (1903).


Cass. Cassell’s* Canaries and Cage-Birds ’ (1880). * Foreign


Birds,” by August F. Wiener.


Paiss. The Parrot volume (iii) of his * Stubenvogel ’ (1881).

NL., xviii. The Parrot volume of Jardine’s * Naturalist’s Library ’

(1843). By P. J. Selby.


Salvad. Salvadori’s “ Notes on the Parrots,” * Ibis ’ (1905).


Wyt. P. Wytsman’s ‘ Genera Avium,’ a work (in English)

by various authorities published in Brussels, which has been appear¬

ing in parts since 1905, but has ceased to appear since (and doubtless

owing to) the war.


A.M. (or Av. Mag.) and B.N., needless to say, = the Avi-

cultural Magazine and Bird Notes.’


[Dr. Hopkinson has compiled this reference list of the

coloured plates of the Parrots as a supplement to his English names

of the family, to be read in conjunction with that list.— Ed.]


NESTOKIDiE.


Nestor notalilis, tie Kea.


Old. B. Aust., Supplement, pi.


Wyt., pt. 4, pi. (head).


N. mer'.dionalis, the Kaka.


Buller, B. N. Z., pi.


NL., xviii, 141, pi. 12.


Wyt., pt. 4, pi. (head;.


Bowl. Orn. Misc.. 1, p. 29, pi. (white variety).



