on the Parrots. 14] 
PaL#orNIs Nicopartca Gould; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. xxv. p. 303 (1902) (Nicobars). 
Paleornis erythrogenys Blyth; Blanf. Faun. of B. Ind., 
Birds, iii. p. 258 (1895), 
PaLmornis tyTLexr Hume; Blanf. t. c. p. 258; Richm. 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 804 (1902) (Lawrence Island 
and South Andaman). 
PaL#orNIs Loneicaupa (Bodd.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. 
p. 196 (1902). 
Pavwornis aALexanpri (Linn.) ; Hartert, op. cit. iii, p. 552 
(1896) (Bali) ; Barteis, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. Ixi. p. 137 
(1902) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1906, p. 512. 
SpaTuorrerus North. 
Spathopterus, North, Ibis, 1895, p. 339 
(woodcut of the primaries). 224.07... S. alexandre. 
The generic character for separating Spathopterus from 
Polytelis consists in the third primary “ singularly elongated 
and terminating in a spatule.” 
Type. 
SPATHOPTERUS ALEXANDR& (Gould); North, Ibis, 1895, 
p. 840; id. Rep. Horn Sc. Exp. to Centr. Austr., part ii. 
Aves, p. 60, pl. v. (1896); Sharpe, Hand-list, il. p. 33 
(1900) ; Keartland, Victorian Naturalist, xxii. p. 83 (1905). 
Polytelis alevandré Wurst, Emu, iii. p. 115 (1903) ; 
Astley, Avicultural Magazine, n.s., iii. p. 248 (1905). 
Polytelis (Spathopterus) alevandre Keartland, Emu, v. 
p. 89 (1905). 
This species, discovered in the north of Australia, has 
been found breeding in South Australia, and a Mr. Hunter 
has obtained it also in the West. 
Prisres Gould. 
Pristes coccinsoprerus Gould; Le Souef, Ibis, 1899, 
p. 360 (nest and eggs), 
Ptistes erythropterus coccineopterus Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
xu. p. 212 (1905). 
Considered distinct from P. erythropterus by Mr. Le Souéf, 
but according to Dr. Hartert very slightly different. 
