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Ned. Ov. Bez., Land en Volk. p. 108. The type specimen of this 

 bird (which is in the Leyden Museum) was brought by Mūller from 

 the island of Bouton ; but the šame species occurs near Macassar, 

 in the adjacent island of Celebes, whence Mr. Wallace has lately 

 transmitted specimens ; and Hving esamples in the Zoological Gar- 

 dens at Rotterdam are said to be from Timor. 



We have now liviug in the Society's gardens examples of Tany- 

 ynathus macrorhynchus and T. MuUeri, 



In our gardens we have also now Hving another very interesting 

 bird, namely the large green Lory, described by Prince Bonaparte in 

 a note in our ' Proceedings ' in 1850 (p. 26) as Psittaeodis TVester- 

 manni, and which may be easily distinguished from its near ally, the 

 Psittacus magnus or sinensis of the older authors (of which we have 

 also a living specimen), by the want of the red patch on the flanks, 

 as well as by the different hue of the deep green colour. Prince 

 Bonaparte has employed for these birds, which, as he well remarks, 

 form the only green genus of true Lories, the term Psittaeodis. 

 But the true type o{ Psittaeodis (as constituted by Wagler*, its ori- 

 ginator) is the extraordinary Parrot, Psittacus paragua — a distinct 

 form altogether, to which Prince Bonaparte has applied the name 

 Stavorinius. Mr. G. R. Gray, in his lašt list of Genera (p. 88, 

 genus 1491), applies the term Masearinus to these Parrots. But 

 Lesson's name Masearinus cannot, I think, possibly be used other- 

 wise than for the Psittacus masearinus of Madagascar, which Lesson 

 placed within the genus, although he did not arrange it as the first 

 species. It seems quite absurd to call a group of birds occurring 

 ouly in the Moluccas " Masearinus. "" I therefore suggest the adop- 

 tion of the term " Polgehlorus," given by Scopoli as the specific de- 

 signation of Psittacus magnus, as a generic name for these birds — 

 which Tvill so stand as Polychlorus magnus, and Polychlorus ffester- 

 manni (PI. (vXXVII.) ; and the third species. Prince Bonaparte's 

 Psittaeodis intermedius, of which there are examples in the British 

 and Leyden Museums — as Polychlorus intermedius. 



It is singular that the only other known example of Polychlorus 

 Westermanni, from which Prince Bonaparte's description was taken, 

 is also a living bird in the Zoological Gardens of Amsterdam, where 

 the collection of Psittacidce (which I had the pleasure of inspecting 

 a few weeks since) is very good, embracing about sixty-four species. 



It is however surpassed by that in our own Gardens, where at the 

 present moment no less than seventy-five species may be seen living. 



3. On a Collection of Birds received by M. Salle from 

 Southern Mexico. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



M. Salle (whose fine series of Mexican birds I have tvrice already 

 brought before the notice of this Society) has lately received a third 



* Wagler, Mon. Psittacorurn, p. 495. 



