OPOPSITTA. 
not very good, but sufficiently so,” I might explain that the majority of 
Reichenbach’s figures are excellent and recognisable at sight. Again, it is 
conjectured that Reichenbach took up the name Cyclopsitta from Hombron 
and Jacquinot’s plate of their Cyclopsitte double ceil which appeared in 1846. 
The plate does not show the details given by Reichenbach, which must 
therefore have been drawn from a specimen. The species named by Hombron 
and Jacquinot is the one from which I have written up my generic characters, 
and it differs in every essential, so that Ogilvie-Grant’s careful consideration 
is valueless, as the accompanying figures taken from that bird will prove. 
REICHENBACH’S DRAWING. DRAWN FROM 0. DIOPHTHALMA. 
The history of the name Opopsitta will now be given. 
In an article in the Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1860, p. 223 et seq ., Sclater, 
writing on the genus Prioniturus, listed the Parrots of the Eastern Archipelago. 
On p. 227 he included Opopsitta diophthabna and Opopsitta desmaresti. 
"Whatever his intention was cannot now be known, and fifty years after he 
wrote me that it was a slip for Cydopsitta. That may have been, but in 1862 
Rosenberg accepted the genus name Opopsitta , and again in 1873 Sclater 
himself made use of it. From the published account the name appears valid, 
as Opo- does not seem to be a printer’s error for Gy do-, as Ogilvie-Grant 
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