1875.] THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. 305 



Dr. O. Finsch has, with some doubt, identified this Parrot with the well-known South- 

 American species. The learned Doctor, however, separates it as a variety characterized by 

 possessing a blue nuchal spot. Sonnerat is silent as to such a character. Scopoli does not add 

 it, nor does Kuhl. Latham alone mentions a variety of P. cajiensis, Gm. {=i P. passer inus, Linn., 

 av. juv.), as being represented in one of Lady Impey's drawings, with a blue spot on the lower 

 part of the neck, — the freak of some imaginative native artist '\ [corif. Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. 274, 

 no. 229, var. B). 



Mr. G. R. Gray (List oi Psittacidce in Brit. Mus. p. 91, no. 2C) records P. leucophthalmus. 

 Scop., as being contained in the British Museum, and adds Luzon as its origin. Dr. v. Martens 

 {I. c.) gives Cuming as the collector of this example. According to the Hand-list, no. 8358, the Tr. Z. S. ix. 



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specimen is no longer extant, and the habitat of the species is left undetermined. P' 



(3) La petite Perruche de Visle de Lugon, Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 78, pi. 41. 

 Psittacus cingulatus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 86, no. 22 (1786). 

 Psittacus melanopterus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 350, no. 132 (1788). 



Psittacus micropterus, Kuhl, Conspectus Psittac. p. 67, no. 113 (1820), ex Sonn. 

 Psittacula cingulata (Scopoli), O. Finsch, Monogr. Papag. ii. p. 677. 

 A South-American species. 



(4) La Perruche de I'isle de Lugon, Sonn. oj). cit. p. 79, pi. 42. 

 Psittacus signatus, Scopoli, torn. cit. p. 26, no. 19 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Palceoriiis cyanocephalus (Linn.), O. Finsch, op. cit. ii. p. 40. 

 Continental India and Ceylon only. 



(5) La Perruche a collier de Visle de Liccon, Sonn. op. cit. p. 80, pi. 43. 

 Psittacus guianensis, Scop., torn. cit. p. 86, no. 20 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Psittacus sonnerati, Gm., torn. cit. p. 324, no. 72 (1788), ex Sonn. 

 Palceornis eupatrius (Linn.), O. Finsch, torn. cit. p. 11. 



This Parrakeet Dr. O. Finsch {I. c.) has identified, without doubt, with the large Alexan- 

 drine Parrakeet of Indian authors. Sonnerat's description, however, does not agree well with 

 that species, nor with any other known to me. 



(6) Psittacus manillensis, Bechstein, Stubenvogel, p. 612, no. 161, " Manilla ;" Kurze 

 Uebersicht, p. 75, no. 50, "Africa, Philippines, especially Manilla" (1811). 



Palceornis torquatus (Bodd.), O. Finsch, toin. cit. p. 17. 

 Certainly not a Philippine species. 



(7) Palceornis gironnieri, Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 195, " Philippines." 

 Palceornis calthropce, Layard, J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 800, " Ceylon." 



Confined to Ceylon. 



(8) Lclectus Zmme?, Wagler ; G. R. Gray, List Brit. Mus. Psittacidw, p. 65, no. 1, "Philip- 

 pines ;" Hand-list, no. 8239, " Philippines." 



and 



(9) Eclectus ceylonensis (Bodd.), G. R. Gray, oj). cit. p. 65, no. 3, "Philippine Isl.'" 



