534: Mr. Vigors on some new subjects of Zoology. 



Ps. Ulietanus. Grrrel. Syst. 1. p. 328. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 103. 



Kuhl. Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Nat. 



Cur. T. x. p. 44. 

 Society Parrot. Lath. Syn. 1. p. 250. No. 52. 



This species is also to be added to that group of Platycercus 

 which I have just particularized as apparently representing the 

 New Holland species of the same genus in the Pacifick Islands. 

 There are one or two other species of Psittacidw, from the same 

 quarter, described by authours, which, when better known, will 

 probably be referred to the same group ; if I may judge at least 

 from some of the specifick characters assigned them. But the 

 specimens themselves are beyond my reach. And when the 

 describers of birds pass over the really important characters of 

 their structure, and dwell alone upon the colours of their plumage, 

 it is impossible to speak with any certainty as to their affinities, 

 or station in nature. 



Genus. Psittacus. Linn. 



A recent acquisition to my collection of two small South Sea 

 Parroquets, which arrived in the vessel that conveyed the late 

 unfortunate King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands to this 

 country, enables me to give a detailed and corrected account, and 

 a figure also for the first time, of a species of this family, which 

 was originally named by Dr. Latham, from a specimen in General 

 Davies' collection ; but which does not appear* to have been cha- 

 racterized with the former gentleman's usual accuracy. His de- 

 scription was most probably taken from an immature or imperfect 



* In the second Supplement to his " Synopsis," Dr. Latham describes the 

 bill of this bird as " pale," and the " legs red." [page 90, No. 16.] In the 

 " Index Ornithologicus," he states the bill to be black and the legs pale. — 

 ["rostrum nigrum; pedes pallidi." Sup. p. xxii. No. 7.] — In the last 

 edition of the " Synopsis," he merely repeats his former statement respecting 

 the bird, but describes the legs as red. [Vol.. ii. p. 193.] M. Kuhl copies the 

 errour respecting the bill from the " Index Ornithologicus," but makes no 

 reference to the legs. [Nov. Act. &c. p. 94.] 



