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with those in New Zealand, without being able to discover any constant 
difference sufficient to establish them as new species. The remarkably small 
specimens from Auckland Islands might claim a place as a first defined 
species, were it not for the, comparatively speaking, great contrast they . 
exhibit to each other in transition. The species differs in measurement to 
an extraordinary degree. The length of wing sometimes varies as much 
as 16". 
2. Platycercus auriceps, Kuhl. 
= Cyanoramphus malherbi, Sou. 
abounds in the Middle and North Islands (Ramsay), South Island,* and 
Auckland Isles (Antarctic Exped.) The specimens from the last-named 
district form, according to De Souancé, a distinct species (PI. malherbi), 
which, however, according to my examinations, agree perfectly in kind. 
3. Platycercus forsteri, Finsch (“ Parrots,” IL., p. 287). 
= Pl. pacificus, Forst. (“ Descr. anim.," p. 73, No. 80). 
differs from Pl. nove-zealandie, Sparrm., in the absence of red spots on the 
tail. The future will show whether this difference is in reality always con- 
stant. Very little, in fact, is known as yet about this parrot; I know of only 
one specimen in the British Museum, which agrees almost perfectly with 
Forster's description. Perhaps it is PZ. nove-zealandie, changed by age. 
The remaining allied species, which belong to the sub-genus Cyanoram- 
phus, are— 
Platycercus unicolor, Vig., of unknown origin, but for the present by no 
means to be effaced, according to Mr. Buller's intention. 
Platycercus pacificus, Forster, (* Descr. anim.," p. 238), from the Society 
Islands (Tahiti); and 
Platycercus ulieteanus, Gml., New Hebrides (Tanna), or Society 
Islands (14). 
Fam. Cvcurrpnz.—l cannot find out where Mr. Gould made this remark. 
In his * Birds of Australia" (folio), he expresses his regret that the nest of 
the Eudynamys flindersi is still unknown, and again in his “ Handbook of 
the Birds of Australia," Vol L, p. 632. Nevertheless, in describing the 
genus Eudynamys, he says explicitly, “all species are parasitical." 
Since we are tolerably well acquainted with the range of Eudynamys 
taitensis, we can say, approximately, where it hibernates. In any case it 
must be on some of the warm islands, the Friendly, Society, Marquesas, 
Viti, and Samoa group, which hitherto have been known to be frequented 
by the species. 
imn lucidus, o on the other hand, must frequent other distticts 
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