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which have all but vanished from the British Isles as residents. It

is a book of original study, and not a mere compilation of facts

already recorded in a hundred other books on British birds.


Mr. Walpole-Bond is very evidently a keen observer, endued

with the gift of patience in watching and waiting. H. D. A.



ENGLISH NAMES FOR THE PARROTS.


By Dr. E. HOPKINSON.


FOREWORD. In this list I have arranged in alphabetical

order all the names I have been able to collect in the different works

on the subject I have had access to. Chief among these are:—


The Parrot Volume of the British Museum Catalogue. My

authority in most cases for the names used by Latham and other early

writers of his time.


Parrakeets : Seth Smith.


Gould’s Handbook of the Birds of Australia.


The Parrot Volume of Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library.


The Dictionary of Birds : Newton.


The most generally used name for any bird is printed in

LARGE CAPITALS. It is under this that the other names, by

which the bird has been known and also its Scientific name (from

the Hand List of the British Museum, Vol. II.) will be found.

Names which are now obsolete are distinguished by an asterisk.


Vernacular, including native and dealers’ names, are in in¬

verted commas.


“ AA,” Tahiti name for the RED-BACKED PARROT.


“ ABACAY,” a native name in the Phillippines for some parrot, probably the

RED-VENTED COCKATOO.


ABYSSINIAN LOVEBIRD, ABYSSINIAN PARRAKEET (Latham) =Agapornis

taranta.


ACTIVE AMAZON, = Amazona agilis of Jamaica. The AGILE PARROT of

Latham and *LlTTTE GREEN PARROT of Edwards. ? = also The

*Modest Parrot and * Jamaica Black-billed Green Parrot

of the first author. Known in Jamaica as the “ BLACKBILL ” and

“Black-billed Parrot,” teste Gosse.


ADELAIDE BROADTAIL, the ADELAIDE PARRAKEET, Platycercus adelaidce.

“ Pheasant Parrot ” in Australia.



