

PSITTACIKOSTKA PSITTACEA. 



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" Parrot-billed Grosbeak/' Latham, Gen. Synops. ii. p. 108, pi. xlii* (1783). 



"Bird with a yellow head/' King, Voy. Pacif. Ocean, iii. p. 119 (1784). 



Loxia psittacea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 844 (1788) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 371 (1790); Donn- 

 dorff, Orn. Beytr. ii. p. 343 (1795) ; Tiedemann, Anat. Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 433 (1814) ; 

 Stephens, Shaw, Zool. ix. p. 268 (1816) ; Bloxam, Voy. 'Blonde/ p. 249 (1826). 



" Le Gros-bec Perroquet," Virey (Sonnini), Hist. Nat. Buffon, Ois. xi. p. 81 (1803-4). 



Strobilophaga psittacea, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 609 (1817); id. Encycl. Meth., 

 Ornithol. p. 1021 (1823). 



Psittirostra psittacea, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. i. p. lxxi (1820) ; Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 295 

 (1837) ; G. B. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 389, pi. 94. fig. 2 * (1845) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 492 

 (1850); Hartlaub, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 133; Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & 

 Orn. p. 432 (1858) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 301 (1869) ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 

 1879, p. 49; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 360; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 347; id. Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 92; Von Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, p. 30; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 21; Finsch, op. cit. 1880, 

 p. 81 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 51 (1885) ; Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 

 p. 386 ; S. B. Wilson, Ibis, 1890, p. 194. 



" Raonhi," Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. 'Uranie' et ' Physicienne/ Zool. ii. p. 36 (1824). 



Psittirostra sandvicensis , Stephens, ut supra, xiv. p. 91 (1826). 



Psittacirostra icterocephala, Temminck & Laugier, Nouv. Bee. PL Col. 457 *, livr. 77 (1828) ; 

 Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. 2, i. p. 415 (1829). 



Sittacodes, Gloger, Gemeinn. Hand- u. Hilfsbuch, p. 249 (1842) . 



Psittacopis psittacea, " Nitzsch," Cabanis (Ersch & Gruber), Allgem. Encycl. sect. i. 1, p. 219 

 (1849) ; Sundevall, Tentam. p. 32 (1872). 



Psittacina olivacea, Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1854). 



Psittirostra icterocephala, G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 28 (1859). 



* Figures notabiles. 



This is one of the birds originally made known by Latham, who described and 

 figured as the " Parrot-billed Grosbeak " in the ' General Synopsis ' an example of 

 each sex from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever ; of these the male is now in the 

 Imperial Museum at Vienna, while both were doubtless obtained during Cook's last 

 voyage, in the account of which King refers to this species as the " Bird with a yellow 

 head." Cassin, by merely mentioning it as from the Sandwich Islands, in the ' Catalogue 

 of Birds ' at the end of his account of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, would seem to 



1 Mr. F. Gay informs me that on Kauai the male is sometimes called " Ou poolapalapa" (Ou with the yellow 

 head), while the female goes by the name of " Oulaevo " (the green Ou). Bloxam also called the bird " Ohu." 



