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Forster had provided the name Psittacus beryllinus, so that 

 the species must be called 



Loriculus beryllinus Forster 



admitting that the genus name Loriculus is valid, though 

 Coryllis appears to be preferable. If so, Coryllis beryllinus. 



The other new names proposed by Forster are mostly either 

 synonyms or preoccupied, but should be quoted in synonymy 

 by specialists One other change seems necessary, however, 

 as Forster's Psittacus bengalensis is equivalent to Gmelin's 

 species of the same name, a species of " Paloeornis." Gmelin's 

 name was only comparatively recently displaced by one. 

 rosa, taken from Boddaert and now the better known name 

 may be reverted to. As I have shown that Psittacula Cuvier 

 is the correct genus name for this group, the name to be used 

 will be 



Psittacula bengalensis Forster 



^instead of Palceornis rosa, Catalogue of the Birds in the British 



* Museum, Vol. XX., p. 453. 



Another item may be noted, viz., Psittacus varius appears 

 to be the Trichoglossus now known as cyanogrammus Wagler. 

 No change is to be made as Forster's name is later than 

 Miiller's choice of the same combination in 1776. 



In the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. 

 XX., p. 42, 1891, appears a species Calliptilus solitarius. 

 The species name is based on Psittacus solitarius Latham, 

 Index Ornith. Suppl., II., p. xxxn., 1801. There is, however. 

 an earlier usage of this combination by Suckow in the Naturg, 

 II. (i), p. 334, 1800, for a different species. 



The next synonym is P. vaillanti Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 909. 

 1809. The date according to Allen (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., Vol. XXXI., Art. 1, p. 13, Mch. 4, 1912) should be 

 May 1, 1810. The name is preoccupied by Latham, Index 

 Ornith. Suppl. II., p. xxn., 1801. The next name is given by 

 Salvadori as Psittacus coccineus Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIII., 2, 

 p. 472, 1811, followed by Psittacus phigy Bechstein, Kurze 



