Catalogue of the Parrots (Psittaci) in the 
Derby Museum. 
By Henry O. Forses and Herpert C. Ropinson. 
Note.—The arrangement and nomenclature followed in this Catalogue are 
those adopted in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum,’ Vol. 
XX., by Count T. Salvadori. All the species known wp to the end of 
1896 are enumerated, the names of those that are desiderata to the 
collection, being printed in Grotesque type. 
After the specific name follows a numeral, signifying the number of 
specimens of the species in the Museum; the sex, of as many as are 
determined, is next designated, then the habitats, and finally the month 
of capture, where those have been noted. Where these data are omitted, 
or given for only some of the specimens, it is to be understood that no 
information exists on the subject in regard to the others, as is un- 
fortunately the case in a large number. Type specimens are marked T. 
NESTORIDZ. 
NESTOR, Wagl. 
notabilis, Gould. Three. New Zealand. 
meridionalis (Gm.). Fifteen. New Zealand. 
No. 1 (=17208 Tristram Coll.) is darker on the back, the red collar broader behind 
and the red on the abdomen brighter, than in the North island form; wings tinged 
with bluish. 
esslingi, Sowancé. i 
productus, Gould. One. Philip Island. 
norfolcensis, Pelz. One. (Plate I.) (=N. productus, Gould Tristr., 
Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 79). Cf Ibis, 1892, p. 557. 
Believed to be the only existing specimen of the species. The corneons covering to the 
upper mandible is lost ; and in the plate has been restored from yon Pelzeln’s figure 
(Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. 1860, xli. p. 322), made from the drawing of the bird found 
among Ferdinand Bauer’s papers. The variability of the bill in Parrots is well known ; 
and as there is no record as to the form of the upper mandible in this specimen, we 
are in ignorance whether or not it varied from that of V. productus. On account of 
the absence of any, save a suspicion, of bars on the tail, we have followed Salvadori 
and retained the name JN. nozfolcensis for the specimen, although it presents no charac- 
ters, other than those easily due to age or sex, by which, in our opinion, it can with 
certainty be specifically separated from NV. productus. We are supported in this view 
by Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S. (Proc. Linn. Soc., July 17th, 1897). 
LORIIDA. 
CHALCOPSITTACUS, &p. 
ater (Scop.). One. g. Salwatty, June. 
This bird has very dark maroon flanks, with one bright scarlet feather on the metatarsus, 
and the edge of the forehead showing dark red feathers, thus agreeing with the 
Mysol bird. C. bernsteini will probably prove to be a synonym of C. ater. 
poem, Rosend. ; insignis, Oust. ; stavorini (Less.); duyvenbodei, 
bois. 
scintillatus (Temm.). One. N. Guinea (Fly River). 
ek scans sides of head and chin, not black, as according to Salvadori, but 
ark red. 
chloropterus, Salvad. One. Port Moresby. 
EOS, Wagl. 
cyanogenys, Bp. 
reticulata (S. Miill.). Four. 2g. Timor-laut, September. 
No. 4 (=204b Lord Derby’s Coll.) is the Type of Blue-necked Lory, Lath., Gen, Hist., 
li. p. 136 (1822). 
histrio (Mill.). Three. 23, 9. 
histrio, sud. sp. talautensis, Meyer & Wiglesw; challengeri, Salvad. 
