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1. CORIPHILUS TAITIANUS. 



(THE TAHITI LORY.) 

 [Plate XXVII. Fig. 1.] 



Otahetian Blue Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. i. p. 255 (1781). 

 Otaheite JParrakeet, var. A, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 189 (1822). 

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

 Petit Perruche cle V Isle cle Ta'iti, D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 455. fig. 2. 

 L'Arimcmon, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 175 (1779). 

 La Perruche Arimanon, Levaill. Perr. pi. 65 (1801). 

 La Perruche Sparman, Levaill. Perr. pi. 66 (var.) (1801). 

 Psittacus peruvianus, Mull. S. N. Suppl. p. 80 (1776). 

 Psittacus cyaneus, Sparrrn. Mus. Carl. fasc. ii. pi. 27 (var.) (1782). 

 Psittacus taitiamis, Grnelin, S. N. i. p. 329, n. 91 (1788). 

 Psittacus varius, Grnelin, S. N. i. p. 337, n. 105 (1788). 

 Psittacus porphyrio, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 7 (1789). 

 Psittacus taitiamis, var. j3, Lath. Index Orn. ii. p. 105 (1790). 

 Psittacus sparnianni, Bechst. Kurze Ueb. p. 80 (1812). 

 Psittacus sapphirinus, Porster, Descr. An. p. 201 (1811). 

 Brotogeris sparmanni, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 133 (1826). 

 Brotogeris sapphirinus, Swainson, Class. B. ii. p. 303 (1837). 

 Nanodes taitiamis, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 117 (1861). 

 Trichoglossus ? taitianus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 130 (1826). 

 Bomicella taitiana, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 712 (1868). 

 Lorius vini, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 191 (1831). 

 Coriphihis sapphirinus, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 563 (1832). 

 Coriphilus cyaneus, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 564 (1832). 

 Coriphilus notatus, G. B. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 417, n. 1 (1815). 



Coriphilus taitiamis, Bonaparte, Bev. et Mag. cle Zool. 1854, p. 157, n. 315 ; Behnw. 

 Vogelbild. t. xxi. fig. 1 (1878-83) ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 16. 



Dark blue; cheeks, lores, and whole of throat white ; bill red. 

 Habitat. Society Islands. 



This beautiful azure Lory, the only Lory found in the Society Islands, has been known ever 

 since 1776, and its description (under the name " L' Arimanon ") was published by Buff on in 

 his great work in 1779. 



