412 On the Names of certain Parrots. 
question. Having said this, however, I must point out that 
it has been applied to the wrong bird. P. L. 8. Miiller gave 
the name to the ‘ Purpur-roode Lori” of Vosmaer (Mon. 
p. 10, t. vii., 1769), and Vosmaer states that his bird came 
from Ceylon! P. L. 8. Miller, however, says “ Amboina. 
Vosmaer.” Now Count Salvadori applies the name roratus 
to the Nerth Moluccan form, which comes from Batchian, 
Ternate, and Halmaheira, and adopts cardinals, Bodd., for 
the South Molucean bird, from Amboina, Ceram, and Bouru. 
Although P. L. 8. Miiller’s description of roratus fits both 
Moluccan forms, it is clear that it cannot by any possible 
means be made to fit the New Guinea form. Therefore, the 
question before us is to which of the two Molucean forms 
must the name be applied; it is quite clear that P. L. 8. 
Miller has applied the name roratus to Vosmaer’s bird, 
which was stated to have come from Ceylon, and arbitrarily 
or from private conviction assigned the locality Amboina to 
it. As, however, all the older authors have assigned fantastic 
localities (Ceylon, China, Amazon River, &c.) to the birds of 
this genus, if we use the name roratus at all it must be 
applied to the bird from the locality stated by its author. 
Count Salvadori, therefore, could under no circumstances apply 
it to the North Moluccan bird ; the only two courses open to 
him were either to reject the name altogether or to apply it 
to the bird from Amboina as done by its author. Now, the 
result of this is that the North Moluccan bird is without a 
name, and I propose for it the name of vosmaert, nom. nov. 
As the whole of the forms of this genus replace one another 
in their respective localities, I look upon the genus Larius as 
consisting of one species, with nine subspecies, as follows :— 
Larius roratus roratus, P, L. 8. Mill. South Moluceas. 
vosmaert, Rothsch. North Moluccas. 
westermanni, Bp. ?. 
pectoralis, P. L. S. Mill. New Guinea and ad- 
joining islands. 
—- aruensis, G. R. Gray. Aru Islands. 
——- solomonensis, Rothsch. & Hart. Solomons and 
New Britain Archipelago. 
—— — macgillivray?, Math. N. Queensland. 
riedeli, Mey. Timor Laut Islands. 
cornelia, Bp. Sumba. 
If it is considered that P. L. 8S. Miiller’s name of pectoralis 
is inadmissible, as applying to Moluccan rather than Papuan 
birds, the name of roraéus polychloros, Scop., must be used 
for the Papuan subspecies. 
