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or siibgenera established by authors, but that it represented in 
the Mascarene Islands the South- American Ara, just as Micro- 
(jlossa and Calyptorhynchus do in the Australian region, that 
there is more analogy between the forms of the South- African and 
South- American faunas than between those of the first and those 
of Australia, and, finally, that P. mauritianus difters from the 
other Pslttaci by osteological characters of the same value as 
those which separate Ara, Calyptorhynchus ^ Microglossa, and so 
forth from each other, having, however, a greater resemblance 
to Ara and Microglossa than to any other form. The author 
has been unable to discover any allusion in the records of old 
travellers to this new discovery. 
PLYCTOLOPHIDiE. 
ScHLEGEL, H. Notice sur les Cacatous blancs h huppe jaune. 
Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. hi. pp. 318-321. 
The author divides this group of birds into two sections, one with pendant, 
tlie other with erect crests. The first section may be again subdivided into : — 
those species, having the’erest large, as Cacatua moluccensis and C. cristata j 
and those having it small, among which are C. sanguinea, C. philippinarum^ 
C, roseicapilla, and C. citrinienstata with red or orange, and three with sul- 
phur crests, C. galerita, from Australia, C. triton y from New Guinea, the Am 
Archipelago, and Goram, as far as the Solomon Islands, and C, sulphureciy 
from Timor, Flores, Lombock, and Celebes. 
Microglossa aterrima is figured, S. Diggles, Orn. Austral, part ii., as also 
Cacatua sanguinea, op. cit. part viii., with the heads of Calyptorhynchus leachi, 
part V., and C. funercuSy part ix. 
STRIGOPIDiE. 
Nestor superhus is described as a now species from the alpine heights of the 
South Island of New Zealand. W. Buller, Ess. Orn. N. Zeal. p. 11. Pro- 
bably N. meridionalis S- B* Taylor, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. xviii. 
p. 140. 
Strigops hahroptilus. A French translation of Dr. Haast’s observations on 
this species (Zool. Record, i. p. 68, ii. p. 95) from ‘The Ibis.’ A. Humbert, 
Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1866, pp. 69-80. 
Platycercidas. 
Fsephotiis puhherrimus and P. multicolor are figured, S. Diggles, Orn. 
Austral, part i. 
Vlatyccrcus jiaviventris and P. harnardiy their heads figured, S. Diggles, 
Orn. Austral, part iii., and F.palliceps and P. JlavcoluSy IdenXy op. cit. part x. 
PSITTACIDAS. 
Fsittacida melanogenia is a new species from the Am Islands, resembling P. 
■gulielmi III. (Zool. Record, ii. p. 95), but not of so strong a build, Avith all 
the tints less bright and some other difierences. Von Rosenberg, Tijdschr. 
Nederl. Indie, 1866; II. Schlegel, N. T. D. iii. p. 330. 
Gnathosittaca heinii (Zool. Record, ii. p. 95) is identical with Conurus 
icterotisy Souance. G. Hartlaub, Bericht u, s. w. p. 27. 
