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has referred it [torn. cit. p. 715). Yet it is not impossible that a Mindanao example of 

 L. hartlauhi may have been Sonnerat's type ; and this view is maintained by Mr. G. E. 

 Gray in the Hand-list. But the title of melanopterus, Scop., cannot be used, as it 

 applies to two distinct species ; therefore that of hartlauhi, O. Finsch, will have, under 

 any circumstances, to be adopted. 



AVhat species Dr. v. Martens {torn. cit. p. 21, no. 116) intended to indicate under the 

 title of Loriculus melanopterus (Scop.), it is impossible to determine. " Kehle blau, ein 

 Flecken im Nacken gelb," does not apply to any Loriculus that I am acquainted with. 



8. * LOBICULUS CHRTSONOTUS. 

 Loriculus chrysonotus, Sclater, Ibisj 1872, p. 333, pi. xi., " Zebu." 



Hab. Zebu {Meyer). 



The example referred to by Dr. O. Finsch (Papag. ii. p. 711) of L. regulus in the 

 British Museum, with nape and back golden, belongs probably to this species. 



The following eleven species of Parrots have been described or else enumerated as 

 inhabitants of the Philippines. 



(1) Petite Perruche de Tisle de Lugon, premiere espece, Sonn. op. cit. p. 76, pi. 38. 

 fig. inf. 



Psittacus pumilus, Scopoli, tovi. cit. p. 87, no. 26 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Cori/llis galgulus (Linn.), O. Finsch, op. cit. ii. p. 699. 



So far as is at present known, this species is restricted to Malacca, Sumatra, and 

 Borneo. 



(2) Petite Perruche de Visle de Lu^on, seconde espece, Sonn. op. cit. p. 76, pi. 38, 

 fig. sup. 



Psittacus leucophthalmus, Scopoli, torn. cit. p. 87, no. 25 (1786), ex Sonn. ; v. Martens, 

 J. I O. 1866, p. 22, no, 119, " Luzon." 



Psittacus simplex, Kuhl, Conspectus Psittac. p. 66, no. Ill (1820), ex Sonn. 



Psittacula passerina (Linn.), O. Finsch, tom. cit. p. 648. 



Dr. O. Finsch has, with some doubt, identified this Parrot with the well-known South- 

 American species. The learned Doctor, however, separates it as a variety characterized 

 by possessing a blue nuchal spot. Sonnerat is silent as to such a character. Scopoli 

 does not add it, nor does Kuhl. Latham alone mentions a variety of P. capensis, Gm. 

 (=P. passerinus, Linn., av. juv.), as being represented in one of Lady Impey's drawings, 

 with a blue spot on the lower part of the neck, — the freak of some imaginative 

 native artist 1 {conf. Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. 274, no. 229, var. B). 



Mr. G. R. Gray (List of Psittacidce in Brit.Mus. p. 91, no. 26) records P. leucophthalmus, 

 Scop., as being contained in the British Museum, and adds Luzon as its origin. Dr. v. 

 Martens {I. c.) gives Cuming as the collector of this example. According to the Hand- 



