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40. PSITTIROSTRA PSITTACEA (Gm.). 



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Parrot -hi I led Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 108, pi. xlii. (1783) (" Sandwich Islands")- 

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



Loxia psittacea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 814 (1788) (ex Latham); Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 871 (1790); 

 Donndorf, Orn. Beytr. ii. p. 343 (1795); Tiedcmann, Anat. Naturg. Vog. ii. p. 433 (1814) ; Steph. in 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool. ix. pt. ii. p. 268 (1816) ; Bloxam, Voy. ' Blonde/ p. 2 19 (1826). 



Strobilophaga psittacea, Vicill. Nonv. Diet. ix. p. 609 (1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 1021 (1823). 



Psittirostra psittacea, Terara. Man. d'Orn. i. p. Ixxi (1820) ; Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 295 (1837) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 389, pi. 94. fig. 2 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 492 (1850) ; Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, i. 

 p. 133 ; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp., Mamm. & Orn. p. 432 (1858) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 301 

 (1869) ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 49; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 360 (has nothing to do with the FringiL 

 lidce, being merely aberrant forms of the same type as Drepanis and Hemignathus) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 347 (Hilo, Hawaii) ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 92 ; Pelz. J. £. O. 1872, p. 30 (compared type of Latham with 

 specimens from Oahu) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 21 (same) : Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 81 (Maui, shot but lost 

 specimens) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. x. p. 51 (1885) ; Pelz. & Lorenz, Ann. k. k. naturh. Hofmus. 1886, p. 263 

 (types in Vienna) ; Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 389; 1889, p. 386 (Kauai) ; Wilson, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 194 (" throughout the group"); id. & Evans, Aves Hawaiienscs, pt. ii. text & pi. (obtained 

 on all islands, except Oahu, where prob. extinct, and Maui) ; Gadow, in Wils. Aves Hawaiienscs, pt. ii. 

 pp. 6 & 7 (stated that it is a Fringilline bird !) j A. B. Meyer, Vogelskclette, iii. p. 38, pi. cxlv. (1892) ; 

 Perkins, Ibis, 1893, p. 103 (field-notes). (Some authors spelt the name Psittacirostra.) 



" RaouM," Quoy & Gaim. Voy. 'Uranie' & < Phys./ Zool. ii. p. 36 (1842). 

 Psittirostra sandvicensis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. pt. i. p. 91 (1826). 



Psittacirostra icterocephalu, Teram. & Laugier, PI. Col. 457, livr. 77 (1828) ( $ only figured, much too deep 



green; & ? described); Cuv. Regne Anim. ed. 2, i. p. 415 (1829). 

 Psittaco pis psittacea, Cab., Ersch & Gruber's Allgem. Encycl. sect. i. p. 219 (1849); Sundev. Tentamen, 



p. 32 (1872). 



Psittirostra icterocephala, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isls. p. 28 (1859). 

 Sittacodes psittacea, Reiehenow, Vog. Zool. Gart. ii. p. 365 (1881). 



" Ou {Loxioides baitleui)," Perkins, Ibis, 1893, p. 103 (Perkins evidently confused the names of the two 

 birds ; see p. 197 !). 



Adult male. Head all round and fore part of neck above golden yellow. Rest of upper 

 surface olive-green, with a yellow tinge, slightly duller on the hind-neck and inter- 

 scapulium, brighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts, the feathers grey at base. 

 Wings blackish brown ; quills outside edged with the colour of the back, narrower on 

 the primaries, much wider on the inner secondaries. Inner w r cbs with paler edges. 



