

Order PSITTAGIFOKMES.] 



[Family PSITTACIMB. 



CYANOMAMPHUS MALHERBEI. 



(ORANGE-FRONTED PARRAKEET.) 



Platycercus alpinus, Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. i., p. 146. 



I think Count Salvadori ('Cat. B.,' xx., p. 590) correctly identifies my Cyanorhamphus alpinus 

 with the species described by Souance ('Rev. et Mag. de Zool.,' 1857) under the above name. 

 The author adds the following note : " Habitat unknown ; type in the Museum at Metz." 



CYANORHAMPHUS FORBESI. 



(CHATHAM-ISLANDS PARRAKEET.) 



Cyanorhamphus forbesi, Rothschild, P.Z.S., 1893, p. 529. 



The Chatham-Islands bird differs so much from the yellow -fronted Parrakeet of New 

 Zealand that Mr. Walter Rothschild has characterised it as a distinct species under the 

 above name. As he has pointed out, it is uniformly larger, and with the crimson band 

 in front of the yellow crown much narrower. In Cyanorhamphus auriceps, moreover, the 

 band of crimson reaches the eye, and in some specimens there is also a crimson patch 

 behind the latter, whilst in this new species there is always a clear space between the 

 crimson band and the eye. 



The types are in Mr. Rothschild's Museum at Tring, and the form is dedicated to 

 Dr. H. 0. Forbes, who has added so much to our knowledge of the natural history of 

 the Chatham Islands. 



Order PSITTACIFORMES.] 



[Family STRINGOPIML 



STRINGOPS 1IABROPTILUS. 



(OWL-PARROT.) 



Stringops habroptilus, Gray ; Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. i., p. 176. 



It is gratifying to learn that the Kakapo is still plentiful in the wooded country on the west coast 

 of the South Island, in spite of the steady spread of stoats and ferrets ; but in former times this 

 bird was, of course, far more numerous. 

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