12 Zoological Miscellany. 
differ from the true Reguli in wanting the pinnated feather over the 
nostrils. 
Lord Byron Parrot. Psittacus fAratingaJ Byroni. Children’s 
MSS. Brit. Mus. Green ; forehead lores to the orbits bright-red ; 
tail-feather rufous, brown 5 shaft greenish black, larger quills bluish, 
with shaft and inner edge black ; tips of crown-feathers blackish ; upper 
mandible elongate, produced ; apex acute ; culmen produced. Length 
17 inches; wing 9; bill 1^ inches. Inhab. Chili. 
Crimson Drepanis. Drepanis Byronensis. Bill black, about as long 
as the head, dilated at the base, slightly curved, culmen rounded the 
whole length ; plumage bright scarlet ; wing and tail black, outer quill 
white-edged ; secondaries scarlet-edged ; vent and abdomen white ; under 
plumage lead-colour, under wing-coverts grey. Length 6 inches ; bill 
9 ; tarsus 10 ; middle toes 7^ lines. (This may be J^ectarinea Byronen- 
sis of Bloxam MSS.) Byron’s Voy. 249, but is not Fringilla coccinea, 
Linn. 
Yellow Drepanis. Drepanis Jlava. JYectarinia jiava. Bloxam, 
Byron, Voy. 249. Bill brown, as long as the head, curved, end slender, 
subulate ; culmen rounded, raised between the nostrils. Yellow-olive ; 
wing and tail pale brown ; feathers greenish-edged ; lores brownish. 
Female dark olive, beneath yellowish grey ; large wing-coverts, white 
tipt. 
Drepanis coccinea, female. Yellow-olive, brighter above ; head and 
upper part of neck red-orange, with front of the shoulder-feather black- 
tipt ; wing and tail black ; larger wing-coverts black, yellow-edged, 
lower wing-coverts white ; bill rather longer than the head, much com- 
pressed ; culmen rounded, perhaps Certhia ehrura. Lath. Ind. Hooked 
Billed Honey Eater, Lath. Hist. v. 192, t. 71, f. 1. 
Description of three African Birds, in the Collection of the British 
Museum. 
Stanley Bustard. Otis Stanleyi. Above vermiculated, black and 
white (reddish near the neck, more minutely marked on the smaller 
wing-coverts) chin, abdomen, and beneath white ; primaries black, inner 
web of the inner primaries, middle, and larger wing-coverts black and 
white varied ; tail black, with three or four broad white bands ; sides of 
face, neck, and chest grey, black speckled and banded ; sides of the 
crown black ; lower part of the back of the neck bright bay. Length 
32 inches ; bill to gape 3J ; tarsus inches. Cape of Good Hope. 
Luzonian Spoon Bill, Lath. Hist. Platalea Tenuirostris, Temm. 
Man. (from). Sonn. Voy. t. 51, adult, 52. Young Var. A. Lath. Crested, 
white ; face and throat red, naked to behind the eyes ; bill greenish, 
with a red margin, and an impressed line near the edge ; very dilated 
at the base, narrow in the middle, broad and rounded at the end ; feet 
bright red ; claws black. Length 3 feet ; tarsus 6 J ; naked part of 
thigh 4 inches ; bill 9 inches ; middle f ; end inches wide. Central 
Africa, Major Denham. 
