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ORNITHOLOGY. 



tioii of the Expedition in good preservation, and also in the Museum 

 of the Philadelphia Academy. 



4. Genus NESTOR, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. I, p. 190 (1831). 

 1. Nestor meridionalis [Gmelin). 



Psittacus meridionaUs, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 333 (1788). 

 Psittaciis Nestor, Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 110 (1790). 

 Psittacus australis, Shaav, Mus. Lev. p. 85 (1792). 

 Nestor nova-lioUandicr, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. I, p. 191 (1831). 

 Psittacus liijpopoUus, FoRST. Desc. An. p. 72 (1844). 



Mus. Lev. Plate, p. 87. 



Excellent specimens of this interesting Parrot from New Zealand, 

 are in the collection. The bill in the species of this genus attains a 

 greater elongation than in any other group of the family PdUacidce, 

 and is used, according to authors, not only for the ordinary purpose 

 of prehension, but for making excavations in trees. It is alluded to 

 by Dr. Pickering, only as having been seen and specimens obtained in 

 the forest near the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



5. Genus APROSMICTUS, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1842, p. 111. 

 1. Aprosmictus TABUENSis {Gmelin). 



Psittacus tahuensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 817 (1788). 

 Psittacus afropurpureus, Shaw, Mus. Lev. p. 140 (1792). 

 Psittacus lii/sijinus, FoRSTER, Desc. An. p. 159 (1844)? 



Plafi/cercus atrogularis, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 129 (first edition, 

 1848).* 



* " Head, breast, belly, and vent, dark crimson, each feather dark slate-color at the 

 root, green in the middle, and dark crimson at the tip ; back, upper part of the wings, 

 and rump, brilliant emerald-green ; feathers black at their roots, a green bar crossing the 

 middle, which is not visible without raising them, which is also the case with a white 

 spot on the occiput; nuchal spot blue ; front and cheeks very dark, the interior feathers 

 of the cheeks delicately tinged with blue ; throat black ; primaries graduated, brilliant 



