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CYANORHAMPHUS ULIETANUS ( gm.) 



Society Parrot Latham, Syn. I p. 250 (1781). 



Psittacus ulietanus Gmelin, S.N. I p. 328, n. 85 (1788). 



Platycercus ulietanus Vig., Zool. I p. 533, Suppl. pi. 3 (1825). 



Cyanorhamphus ulietanus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, n. 188. 



Platycercus tannaensis Finsch, Papag. II, p. 272 (1868). 



Psittacus fuscatus Pelz., Ibis 1873, p. 30. 



j^DULT : "Olive brown, the head brown -black ; rump and basal upper tail- 

 coverts brown-red, the longest upper tail-coverts olive brown like the 

 back ; underparts olive-yellow ; quills, primary-coverts, under wing coverts 



and tail-feathers grey; bill black, base of upper mandible grey; feet brown." 



(Salvadori, Cat. B. XX p. 579). Wing 5-3 inches, bill 0-8 inches, tarsus 0-8 



inches, tail 5 inches. 



Habitat : Ulietea, Society Islands (fide Latham). 



The type from the Leverian Museum is in Vienna, and a specimen from 

 Bullock's collection is in the British Museum. These are the only two 

 specimens known, and as it is now more than a hundred years since anyone 

 has procured a specimen, we may suppose that this is an extinct species. 

 The specimen in Vienna, which I have recently been able to examine, has 

 the head, back, wings, and tail deep umber-brown, the rump dark-crimson, 

 upper tail-coverts olive, underside brownish yellow. 



CYANORHAMPHUS SUBFLAVESCENS 



SALVADORI. 



Parrot from Lord Howe Island Phillips, Bot. Bay, p. 225 (1789). 

 Cyanorhamphus subflavescens Salvadori, Ann. & Mag. (6) VII, p. 68 (1891). 



VERY similar to C. cooki and C. saisseti and intermediate in size. Above 

 more yellowish than C. saisseti, below more greenish, tail shorter 

 than in either of the latter. 

 This species is believed to be extinct. Last year I received some 

 specimens of a Cyanorhamphus from an inhabitant of Lord Howe's Island, 

 but from subsequent letters these appear to have been collected on Norfolk 

 or Philip Island, and they certainly are C. cooki. 

 Habitat: Lord Howe's Island. 



A pair in the British Museum appear to be the only known specimens. 



