Plalycercm Pacificus. °^ 



somewhat louger and more compressed, and the under mandible 

 less abruptly bent inwards, and consequently less emarginated. 

 I have not had an opportunity of determining, whether the species 

 so nearly allied to the last, at least in general appearance, as to 

 have been confounded with it until lately, the Psitt. Tabuensis, 

 Latlu, may be referred to the same group ; the only specimen 

 which I can ascertain to have been brought to this country having 

 been suffered at the late sale of Mr. Bullock's Museum to be 

 transmitted to a continental collection. But from the general 

 resemblance which the two species bear to each other, I make no 

 doubt of their being congenerick. 



Pacificus. Lath. P. viridis, sincipite macula postoculari uropy* 

 gio plerumque ejusque lateribus coccineis. 

 Tab. Sup. 1. 



Rostrum argenteum apice nigro. Corjms superne laete viride, 

 subtus pallidius. Alula, pteromata, remigesque primariae externe 

 caeruleae, interne fuses : remiges secundaria^ externe vjrides, in- 

 terne fuscae. Rectrices quatuor mediae virides, externa: flavo- 

 virescentes, subtus flavo-fuscse. Pedes subpallidi. Irides brun- 

 neae. Longitudo corporis 11 — 13 Poll. ; mandibular superioris ad 

 frontem et ad rictum ±, inferioris § ; tarsi T % ; digiti externi an* 

 terioris •£, posterioris -| ; unguium externorum |-. 



Habitat in Insulis Nova Zealandia, Macquarriana, Otaheite. 



In Mus. Brit., nost. 



This species, figured apparently for the first time in Forster's 

 Drawings, [Icones 46 & 47, in Bibliotheca Banksiana,] was for 

 the first time also named as above in Dr. Latham's " General 

 Synopsis of Birds." It was afterwards* figured by M. Sparmanu 



* The first volume of Dr. Latham's " Synopsis," in which this Parrot was 

 named and described, [p. 252] was published in 1781. The " Museum Carl- 

 sonianum" appeared five years afterwards, in 1786. In the " Index Ornitholo- 

 gicus," which was published in 1790, subsequently to the appearance of M. 

 Sparmann's Work, Dr. Latham, as soon as it was in his power, referred to his 

 name and his figure. [See Ind. Orn. p. 104 No. 65. vars.] It is but justice 

 to the venerable British Ornithologist to state these facts, as well to evince the 

 priority of his name, as to clear him of the following imputation of inaccuracy, 



