182 MR. J. GOULD ON A NEW PARRAKEET. [Feb. 14, 



collector. Some ardent "anthropologists" having requested him 

 to procure them some Aino's skulls, he tried to procure them, was 

 informed against by a foreign consul, who did not appreciate science, 

 imprisoned in Japan, and then sent home in confinement. When I 

 first saw him on his return he was almost a living skeleton, in a most 

 pitiable state of bodily and mental prostration. Under good nourish- 

 ment and nursing he has slowly recovered, and is about to proceed to 

 the Peruvian Andes to continue his labours as a zoological collector. 



I may observe that there appear to be two very distinct Otters 

 found in Formosa. 



Two imperfect skulls sent by Mr. Swinhoe certainly belong to 

 two very distinct species. The most perfect skull, which wants the 

 cutting-teeth, belongs to the first section of the genus, as defined in 

 my paper above referred to, with moderate-sized tubercular grinders, 

 and a moderate-sized inner lobe to the flesh-tooth. 



The second, on the contrary, which only consists of the front por- 

 tion of the upper jaw, with the teeth in change from the milk to the 

 permanent series, has a very large square tubercular grinder and a 

 very large rounded internal lobe to the flesh-tooth, as in the second 

 section, which I have called Hydroyale, in the same monograph. 



I propose to indicate this species by the name of Lutra (Hydro- 

 gale^ swinhoei. It is easily characterized by the small size of the 

 upper cutting-teeth, the series forming only a width of 4^ lines ; 

 while the series of most other Indian Otters occupy 6 lines or half 

 an inch, or sometimes rather more. 



2. On a New Australian Parrakeet. 

 By John Gould^ F.E.S. &c. 



Mr. Coxen, of Brisbane in Queensland, having forwarded to me a 

 correct drawing of a small species of Parrakeet, new to the Austra- 

 lian avifauna, I hasten to bring it under the notice of the Zoological 

 Society, and to name the bird Cyclopsitta coxeni, in honour of the 

 gentleman who has been the first to make us aware of the existence 

 of the species. In size and in some other respects it is nearly allied 

 to the Cyclopsitta diophthalma of Mysol, but differs in the absence 

 of scarlet on the crown and the smaller extent of that colour on the 

 cheeks. 



Cyclopsitta coxeni, Gould. 



General plumage green ; across the forehead a narrow band of 

 red, which unites through the lores with a large patch of the same 

 hue on the ear-coverts, beneath which is a patch of blue ; primaries 

 margined with blue ; a patch of red on the tertiaries near the body ; 

 tail short and wholly green ; bill very stout and of a horn-colour. 



Total length 7| inches, bill f, wing 3f, tail 2, tarsi g. 



Remark. — In the note accompanying the drawing, Mr. Coxen 

 states that two examples of this bird were procured by Mr. Waller 



