318 Count T. Salvadori— Notes 
would give up this generic name in favour of Huphema Wagl., 
the former having been used by Schonherr in 1826, in the 
same year as Vigors and Horsfield. 
Metopsirracus Gould. 
MELOoPsITTACUS UNDULATUs (Shaw) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
xii. p. 214 (Soda Spring, Kimberley) (1905). 
Fam. VI. Strincorip# (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 599). 
Sraincors G. R. Gr. 
Srrincors aBropTitus G. R. Gr.; Salvad. Gen. Av., 
Psittaci, pt. i. p. 2, pl. fig. 1 a, 6, c, d, e (1905) ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 588; R. Henry, t.c. pp. 583-585; 
Buller, Suppl. B. New Zeal. 11. p. 89 (1905). 
Strigops abroptilus Lorenz, Ann. Hofmus, Wien, xvii. 
p. 820 (1902). 
Kakapo A. Newt. Dict. of B. p. 473 (1898). 
Dr. Lorenz has some remarks about the Alpine examples 
collected by Herr Reischek. 
Srrincors Greyr G. R. Gr.; Sharpe, Hand-list, i. p. 41, 
n. 2 (1900); Salvad. Gen. Av., Psittaci, pt. iii. p. 2 (1905). 
Dr. Sharpe says that “the Hon. Walter Rothschild 
(in litt.) considers that S. greyt is only an aberrantly 
coloured example of S. habroptilus. In the ‘ Catalogue of 
Birds, xx. p. 601, I had already a remark to the same 
effect. 
APPENDIX. 
During the publication of my “‘ Notes on the Parrots,’ 
the following species or subspecies have been described or 
discriminated :— 
HypocHaRMOSYNA PALLIDIOR (Rothsch. & Hartert). 
Charmosynopsis placentis pallidior Rothsch. & Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. xii. p. 253 (1905) (Bougainville, New Britain, 
New Ireland, and New Hanover). 
“Without a blue patch on the uropygium [like H. sud- 
placens Scl., but] colour of the upper surface paler green, 
