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doubtful ones 5 but of uH these a single species only (see Aridce) is described as 
being entirely new, though several other new names, both generic and specific, 
are given. A very full IndeA completes this eAtreniely satisfactory worlc, 
and it is greatly to bo wislied that the five coloured plates wore at all equal 
to the company in which they find tlmmselves, 
Milne-Edwauds, Alphonse. M^moire siir un Psittacien fossilo do I’ile 
Rodorigues. Rev. et Mag. do Zool, 1868, pp. 7-11. 
An abstract of the paper noticed last year (Zool, Record, iv, p, 86), 
Arid^e. 
Palcsornis hodgsoni and P. peristerodes are names proposed to be given to P. 
schisticepa, Hodgson (As. Res. xix. p. 178), and P, columhoidca, Vigors (Zool. 
Journ. V. p. 274). 0. Finsch, Papagoion, ii. pp. 60-62, 74-77. 
Pul(eomia hdhami is the name proposed for PaiUacus orgthrooophalusj var. 
y,horneu3f Gmel. (S, N. i. p. 826), Palcoonm bornouSf Wagh, a species having 
inany other synonypis, Id, tom. cit, pp, 60-70. 
Geopsittacus (Pezoporus) Qceidentcdis^ its habits in confinement (cf. Zool. 
Rec. iv. p. 86), external and internal structure very ininutely described, 
and illustrated with woodcuts of the head, foot, and sternum. Platycercua 
and Stngops are the extremes of a Psittacine group, of which Pezoponis, in- 
cluding Geopsittacus, is the central forni, J. Murie, P. Z. S. 1808, pp. 158- 
165. 
Pezoponis formosus is figured. Higgles, Orn, Austral, pt. xvi. 
Brotogerys suhca:rulea (Lawr. Ann, Lyc. N, York, vii, p, 476) m^B.chry- 
sosema (Zool, Rec. i. p. 60) are figured, 0, Fiiisch, Papagoion, ii. pp, 07, 
107,pls. 2, 3. 
Bolhorhynchus luchsi is a new species, from Bolivia, of a dull grass-green, 
with the crown, cheeks, chin, throat, and breast grey, free fiom light tips to 
the feathers ; the under wing-coverts and sides of the belly distinctly olive- 
yellow. It is Myiopsitta miirinoides, Sonanc6 (R. Z. 1856, p. 06) and Conunis 
vmrinoidcs^ G. R, Gray (lust B. Pr. Mus, Psittacidm^ p, 48), noo Temm. 
Id. tom, cit, pp. I2I-I33, 
Platycercus forsteri is the name given to a species from New Zealand, 
which has been confounded by many writers with P. pacijicus, this last being- 
proper to Otaheiti, Id, J. 0, 1867, pp. 825, 340 j Papag. ii. pp. 287-289. 
RsiTTACIDiE. 
Pionias ohieusis is a now species, froiu the island of Obi, entirely resem- 
bling P, cyanicollis, with which it has been confounded by Bchlegel (N. T. 1). 
1866, p. 334), except that it has a copper-brown rump, Q, Finscli, Papa- 
geien, ii. pp. 389, 800. * 
Pionias gerontodes is the name proposed to be given to Psittacus seniloides, 
Ma.ss. & Souance (R. Z. 1854, p. 73), Id. tom. cit. pp. 466-457. 
Chrysotis guatemalce, Ilartl., and Ooryllis [sc, Poriculus'] exilia (Schl.) are 
figured. Id. tom. cit. pp. 562, 729, pis. 4, 5, 
Coryllis [sc. Loriculus^ hartlauhi is the name given to L. melanopterus, G. 
R. Gray (List B. Br. Mus. Psittacidee, p. 65), nec Scop., and L, apicalis, G. 
R. Gray {op. cit. p. 50), nec Souance. Id. tom. cit. pp. 711-713. 
Cyclopsitta coxe^ii is figured, S, Biggies, Orij. Austral, pt. xi^. 
