642 Count T. Salvadori— Notes 



XXXVII.— Notes on the Parrots. (Part VI.) 

 By T. Salvadori, H.M.B.O.U * 



Fam. V. PsiTTAciDiE (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 137). 



Subfam. Pionin/E (op. cit. p. 267). 



Chrysotis Sw. 



Dr. Sharpe ( ( Hand-list/ ii. p. 20) follows the American 

 ornithologists, who prefer using the generic name Amazona 

 Less, to that of Chrysotis Svv. As stated in the ' Catalogue 

 of Birds/ xx. p. 268, the term Amazona was first used by 

 Lesson in 1831 as a subgenus, but before the same author 

 gave to it generic value in 1847 (Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 196) 

 Swainson in 1837 had established the genus Chrysotis. It 

 appears to me doubtful whether in such a case priority can 

 rightly be attributed to the name Amazona, established with 

 generic value ten years later than Chrysotis. 



" Chrysotis guildingi Dutton, Avicult. Mag. (2) ii. pi. to 

 p. 121 (1904) ; Rothsch. Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 15 (1905) ; 

 Nicoll, t. c. p. 23 (1905). 



Amazona yuildingi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 20, n. 1 

 (1900). 



Said to be nearly extinct. 



— Chrysotis augusta (Vig.). 



Amazona imperialis Richm. Auk, xvi. p. 186 (nom. emend.) 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 20, n. 2 (1900) ; Rothsch. 

 Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 15 (1905). 



It appears to me at least doubtful whether we ought 

 to give up the name of Chrysotis augusta (Vig.), there 

 being a Psittacus august us Shaw (1792). The latter name 

 is a synonym of Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (Lath.) (171)0), 

 so that Shaw's name can never have come into use; besides, 

 the two birds which have received the specific name augustus 

 belong to two different genera. 



* Continued from p. 465. 



