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name therefore falls as a synonym; the second species, 
A. dejeani, Fst., does not appear to agree with any of the 
species dealt with in my paper. 
EXPLANATION OF- PLATE VIL 
Fig. 1. Aleides crinalifer, sp. n. 
Fig. 2. habenatus, sp. 0. 
Fig. 3. loratus, sp. 0. 
Fig. 4. —— pyrtfer, sp. n. 
Fig. 5. —— jugalis, sp. nu. 
Fug... 6. stevenst, Sp. 0. 
Fig. 7. -—— subsellatus, sp. n. 
Fig. 8. —— areicollis, sp. un. 
Fig. 9. —— bryant, sp. n. 
Fig. 10, —— trigonophorus, sp. n. 
Fig. 11. —— vitalisi, sp. u. 
L.—On the Names of certain Parrots of the Genus Larius, 
Bodd.=Kclectus, Wagl. By Lord Roruscuixp, F.R.S. 
THE genus Helectus has always excited much discussion, 
chiefly due to the extraordinary sexual dimorphism. Mr. 
Gregory M. Mathews has proved that the name Larius, 
Bodd., has priority over Wagler’s Eclectus, but ignores the 
“International Rule” which only allows names to be 
corrected by the author himself, and then ONLY in the same 
work in which he gave the name, and alters it to Lorius. 
Count Salvadori, in the ‘Catalogue of Birds,’ enumerates 
six “species,” as follows :—pectoralis, P. L. S. Miiller ; 
roratus, P. L. 8. Miiller; cardinalis, Bodd.; riedeli, Meyer ; 
cornelia, Bp. ; and westermanni, Bp. 
Of these, riedeli and cornelia do not concern the present 
question at all, as the @ ? are entirely crimson-scarlet on 
upper and under side, and, although the @ of westermannt is 
very close to the two Moluccan forms, the ¢ has green 
flanks, and therefore this form also is outside our present 
problem. 
Count Salvadori has used Philip Statius Miller’s names for 
the New Guineaand North Moluccan forms, and it is a great 
pity that his names have been adopted by ornithologists, as the 
whole work is a compilation, and in many cases the descrip- 
tions are extremely doubtful and in others (as in the present 
instance) the names are founded on figures of older authors 
who give impossible or extremely doubtful localities. As, 
however, P. L. S. Miiller’s names are accepted by the larger 
number of ornithologists, I do not feel justified in over- 
throwing the name roratus, which is the chief crux in this 
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