300 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CERTAIN PARROTS. [Mar. 18, 



specially mentioned below, are examples of Licmetis gymnopis, Ara 

 spixi l , Coracopsis barklyi, Chrysotis guildingi, Chrysotis bouqueti 2 , 

 and Nestor hypopolius. 



The species, however, to which I now wish to call special atten- 

 tion are the following ; — 



1. Brotogerys tuipara (Gm.), and 



2. Brotogerys chrysoptera (Linn.). 



Dr. Finsch has regarded the latter of these two birds as the young 

 of the former, but, I believe, quite incorrectly, as will be apparent to 

 those who examine our living specimens of these two species, of 

 which I also exhibit skins from my collection. B. chrysoptera has 

 a narrow frontal margin of dark brown, and a brownish throat, 

 which never develops into the orange front and chin-spot of B. 

 tuipara. >, 



In my ' Catalogue of American Birds ' (p. 347) I have called B. [1 5%, 

 tuipara B. notata, being the bird figured in PL Enl. if. fig. 2 (unde // faffo 

 Psitt. notatus, Bodd.), and B. chrysoptera I have called B. tuipara. 



Certain localities are, for B. tuipara, Barra do Rio Negro {Wal- 

 lace), and for B. chrysoptera, Venezuela (Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G) ; 

 but both species seem to occur in Guiana. 



3. Pal^ornis cyanocephalus (Linn.). 



4. Pal^eornis rosa (Bodd.). 



We have now also adult examples of both these nearly allied 

 species, which have likewise been united by Dr. Finsch, but are 

 clearly distinguished by Mr. Hume (Stray Feath. ii. p. 15). 



Mr. Gould has lately given excellent figures of both (Birds of 

 Asia, pt. xxvi.), but has unfortunately reversed the names. 



5. PAL.EORNIS fasciatus. 



Psittacus fasciatus, P. L. S. Miiller (ex PI. Enl. 517). 



Palceornis fasciatus, Hume, Stray Feath. vii. p. 164. 



Palceornis melanorhyncha, Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 771, et 1878, 

 p. 999; Blyth, Ibis, 1873, p. 79. 



Palceornis schisticeps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 696. 



I quite agree with Mr. Hume (I. s. c.) that the figure in the 

 Planches Enlumine'es (517), attributed by Finsch to P. javanicus, 

 is more probably intended for its Indian ally (P. lathami et P. me- 

 lanorhynchus of Finsch), and that the best plan is to call the latter 

 P. fasciatus. 



Of this species we have now three examples living in the collec- 

 tion, namely : — 



a. A black-billed bird (and therefore, I presume, a female), pre- 

 sented by Mr. Edmund Warre, April 12, 1871, and stated to have 

 been brought from Cashmere. This is the specimen alluded to by 

 Blyth, Ibis, /. s. c. 



1 See P. Z. S. 1878, p. 976, pi. lxi. a See P. Z. S. 1875, p. 61, pi. xi. 



