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Ned. Ov. Bez., Land en Volk. p. 108. The type specimen of this 

 bird (which is in the Leyden Museum) was brought by Muller from 

 the island of Bouton ; but the same species occurs near Macassar, 

 in the adjacent island of Celebes, whence Mr. Wallace has lately 

 transmitted specimens ; and living examples in the Zoological Gar- 

 dens at Rotterdam are said to be from Timor. 



We have now living in the Society's gardens examples of Tany- 

 gnathus macrorhynchus and T. Mulleri. 



In our gardens we have also now living another very interesting 

 bird, namely the large green Lory, described by Prince Bonaparte in 

 a note in our ' Proceedings '. in 1850 (p. 26) as Psittacodis Wester- 

 manni, and which may be easily distinguished from its near ally, the 

 Psittacus magnus or sinensis of the older authors (of which we have 

 also a living specimen), by the want of the red patch on the flanks, 

 as well as by the different hue of the deep green colour. Prince 

 Bonaparte has employed for these birds, which, as he well remarks, 

 form the only green genus of true Lories, the term Psittacodis. 

 But the true type of Psittacodis (as constituted by Wagler*, its ori- 

 ginator) is the extraordinary Parrot, Psittacus paragua — a distinct 

 form altogether, to which Prince Bonaparte has applied the name 

 Stavorinius. Mr. G. R. Gray, in his last list of Genera (p. 88, 

 genus 1491), applies the term Mascainnus to these Parrots. But 

 Lesson's name Mascarinus cannot, I think, possibly be used other- 

 wise than for the Psittacus mascarinus of Madagascar, which Lesson 

 placed within the genus, although he did not arrange it as the first 

 species. It seems quite absurd to call a group of birds occurring 

 only in the Moluccas ". Mascarinus." I therefore suggest the adop- 

 tion of the term " Polychlorus," given by Scopoli as the specific de- 

 signation of Psittacus magnus, as a generic name for these birds — 

 which will so stand as Polychlorus magnus, and Polychlorus Wester- 

 manni (PI. CXXVII.) ; and the third species, Prince Bonaparte's 

 Psittacodis intermedins, of which there are examples in the British 

 and Leyden Museums — as Polychlorus intermedins. 



It is singular that the only other known example of Polychlorus 

 Westermanni, from which Prince Bonaparte's description was taken, 

 is also a living bird in the Zoological Gardens of Amsterdam, where 

 the collection of Psittacidce (which I had the pleasure of inspecting 

 a few weeks since) is very good, embracing about sixty -four species. 



It is however surpassed by that in our own Gardens, where at the 

 present moment no less than seventy-five species may be seen living. 



3. On a Collection of Birds received by M. Salle from 

 Southern Mexico. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



M. Salle (whose fine series of Mexican birds I have twice already 

 brought before the notice of this Society) has lately received a third 



* Wagler, Mon. Psittacorum, p. 495. 



