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1. VINI AUSTRALIS. 



(THE FRINGILLINE LORY.) 

 [Plate XXVI. Fig. 1.] 



Blue-crested Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. i. pt. 1, p. 251, n. 58 (1781). 



Sparrow Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 93 (1802). 



La Perruche fringillaire, Levaill. Perr. pi. 71 (1801). 



Psittacus australis, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 329, n. 90 (1788) (ex Latham). 



Psittacus fringillaceus, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 337, n. 107 (1788). 



Psittacus porphyreocephalus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. i. (1789). 



Psittacus pipilans, Lath. Index Orn. i. p. 105, n. 69 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, 



p. 472, pi. 69 (1811). 

 Psittacus euchloris, Eorster, MS. (teste "Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 565) ; Porster, Descr. An. 



p. 160 (1844). 

 Brotogeris fringillaceus, Stepli. in Shaw's Zool. xiv. p. 133 (1826). 

 Brotogeris porphyreocephalus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 303 (1836). 

 Nanodes fringillacea, Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 117 (1861). 

 Trichoglossus pipilans, Peale, U.S. Expl. Expecl. p. 129 (1S18). 

 Trichoglossus fringillaceus, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 657 (1877). 

 Domicella fringillacea, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 717 (1868). 

 Lorius fringillaceus, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 191 (1831). 

 Coriphilus euchloris, "Wagler, Monog. Psitt. pp. 495, 561 (1S32). 

 Coriphilus pipilans, G. P. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 117, n. 3, pi. 103. fig. 5. 

 Coriphilus fringillaceus, Bonaparte, Pev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 157, n. 312 ; Pinscb 



& Hartl. Orn. Centr.-Polyn. p. 25 (1862) ; Whitmee, Ibis, 1S75, p. 136 ; Layard, 



P. Z. S. 1876, p. 191 ; Pchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxi. fig. 7 (1878-83). 

 Coriphilus australis, Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Orn. p. 211 (185S). 

 Coriphilus fringillaceus, Sundev. Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 71 (1S72). 

 Vim fringillacens, Lesson, Compl. de Buffon, 2nd edit., Ois. p. 606 (ISIS) ; G. P. Gray. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 151, n. 8196 (1870). 

 Vini australis, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 13 (1891). 



Forehead green, vertex and occiput bright blue. 

 Habitat. Samoa and Friendly Islands. 



This beautiful little bird was discovered at Tongatabu during Captain Cook's third royage 

 (1776-80) to the Eriendly Islands. Peale, during an exploring expedition from the United 

 States, obtained it from Samoa, in which island no other species of the family Loriidce has 

 yet been discovered, any more than in the Eriendly Islands. 



