4.24 Messrs. G. jNT. ^STatlic-ws and Tom Iredale : 



this out, and theu Bailer would not recognise Lorenz's 

 name hut wished to utilise for the North Island race his 

 own name of N. occidentalis given to the absolutely typical 

 bird. Boiler also admitted the beautiful colour aberration, 

 N. efisUngi, as a valid species^ but of course it is impossible to 

 allow this. It may be, however, that a recognisable race with 

 a strong tendency to albinism does inhabit the Marlborough 

 District, but without a series of specimens no progress 

 whatever can be made in this most attractive field. 



Nestor notaWlis Gould. Kea Parrot. 



Nestor notabUis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1856, 

 p. 941 : Murihuki, South Island. 



Synonym : — 



Nestor notahilis IJiiller. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 75. 



Range : — South Island (breeding). 



Family CACATUIDuE. 

 Genus CYANORAMPIIUS. 

 Cynnoramphus Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. vol. vi. 1854, 

 p. 153. 



1 ype (by subsequent designation) : C. erythronotus (Kuhl). 



Cyanoramphus novaezelandise novsezelandise (Sparrman). Red- 

 fronted Parrakcet. 

 Psiitaciis novcezelandue Sparrman, Mus, Carlson, fasc. ii. 

 1787, no. xxviii. : Dusky Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Luthainus sparmanii Lesson, Traits d'Oruith. 1830, p. 206 : same 



locality. 

 Cyanoramphus frontatus Bonaparte, Naiimannia, 1856, Consp. 



Psitt. n. 188, nom. mul. 

 Cyanoramphus novat(/uii)ea id. ib. 189, nom. nud. 

 Plafycercus forsteri Finscli, Papageien, vol. ii. 1868, p. 287 : 



same locality. 

 Vlatycercus ro?t'/(?^n]uller, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. aoI. vii. 1875, 



p. 220 : North Cai.terbury, Soiuli Island. 

 Cyanorhamplms novcrzcalandia; Buller, S'uppl. vol. ii. p. 83, 



Range: — Both Islands (breeding). 



