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locality having originally boon given, tho name was soon after misapplied to 
the representative species from New South Wales, the distinctness of which 
was hot immediately recognized, and this last was consequently figured 
under the name of the first hy its describer (B. Austral, v. pi. 33). The 
mistake on being discovered was thought to be set right by Bonaparte, who, 
in a noniinal list of the order (R. Z. 1864, p. 164), introduced, but without 
diagnosis, a P. xanthorrhous to the world, still leaving a P. hcBmaiogader. 
Subsequently Mr. G. R. Gray misquoted (List B. Brit. Mus. part iii. sect. ii. 
p. 7) this word as hcematorrhous^'' which is now used by Mr. Gould as the 
name for the New South Wales species, while he terms the western one P. 
xanthorrhous, though it is the true P. hmmatogaster. It is to be hoped the 
other form may stand as P. hmnatorrhous. J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii, 
pp. 62-64. 
Platycercus auriceps, its nest and eggs described. E. P. Ramsay, Ibis, 
1866, pp. 166, 167. 
rtistes is the name proposed for a new genus to comprehend the Apros- 
mictus erythropterus of Australia and a new species from the same country, 
as well as the Platycercus vulneratus, Wagler, from Timor. These are suffi- 
ciently different in form and colouring to warrant their being separated from 
Aprosmictus and formed into a new genus They have a very laboured 
flight, consequent on the great size of their wings.” No characters are given. 
J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 37. 
Ptistes coccineopterus ” is a new species from Port Essington, differing 
from the form foimd on the east coast {Aprosmictus erythrcyptet'us) by being 
smaller in all its measurements except those of the bill, which is larger, and 
being more richly coloured. J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 39. 
Strigopid;e. 
Strigops habroptilus. A retranslatioii into German from * The Ibis ’ of Dr. 
Haast’s observations on this species ( Cf. Zool. Record, i. p. 68). G, yon 
Frauenfeld, J. f. 0. 1864, pp. 468-464. 
PsiTTACIM. 
Palieornis alexandri : the statements of ancient writers respecting this bird 
noticed. F. Schlegel, Zool. Garten, 1866, pp. 470, 471. 
Psittacula gulielmi III. (!) is a new species from Salwatty and New Guinea, 
allied to P. desmaresti and P. diophthalma, but with a rounded and not 
cuneiform tail. II. Schlegel, N. T. D. 1866, pp. 252, 263. 
Conurus hemii is a new species from Bogota with a very peculiar form of 
bill, having a broad and comparatively large under mandible, rendering it 
the t}^pe of a proposed new section, Ghathosittaca. In general colouring it 
approaches the group Pyrrhura. J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1864*, pp. 414-416. 
Psittacus {Chrysotis) naitereri, is a new species brought from Brazil by 
Natterer, who in his notes rightly separated it from C. thalassima on account 
of its blue-green colouring. It is allied to C. guatemalce ; but that has a blue 
* Not published till after March 1866. 
