On the Xames of certain Parrots. 411 



name therefore falls as a synonym ; the second speeies, 

 A. dcjeani, P\t., does not appear to agree with any of the 

 species dealt witii in my paper. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIL 



Fiy. \. Ahifles crinalifvr, sp. n. 

 Fiy. 2. hnbenaius, sp. u. 



L. — On the Names of certain Parrots of the Genus Lariu.«, 

 .Boc?d = Eclectus, Wagl. By Lord Kothscuild, F.R.S. 



The genus Eclectus has always excited much discussion, 

 chiefly due to the extraordinary sexual dimorphism. Mr. 

 Gregory M. Matiiew.s has proved that the name Larius, 

 Bodd., has priority over Waglei^s Eclectus, but ignores the 

 "International Rule^' which only allow.s 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 " specie?,'^ as follows : — pectoralis, P. L. S. Miiller ; 

 roratus, P. L. S. Miiller; cardinalis, Bodd. ; riedeli, Meyer ; 

 Cornelia, Bp. ; and loestermanni, 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 icestermanni is 

 very close to the two Moluccan forms, the ^ has green 

 flunks, and therefore this form also is outside our present 

 problem. 



Count Salvadori has used Philip Statins Miiller's names for 

 the New Guinea and 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 ornithologist?, I do not feel justihed in over- 

 throwing the name roratas, which is the chief crux in this 



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