KAKATOE. 
I have given the preceding long account as it seems necessary to have 
the facts on record, and I now introduce 
Eucacatua 
with Psittacus galeritus Latham as type, so that definite results may be soon 
achieved. My name will become a synonym if my conclusions be accepted, 
but will come into use if they are rejected. 
The type of Plyctolophus I have given as K. rosacea ; I select this 
name for the bird Salvadori called Cacatna moluccensis , based on Psittacus 
moluccensis Gmelin, 1788, which is antedated by Psittacus moluccensis 
Forster, 1781. As an item of importance to extra-limital workers, I might 
notice that Opinion No. 39 legitimatises Cuvier’s Psittacula, and this is quite 
different to the genus now so called and is antecedent to Palceornis. 
Thus Psittacula Cuvier was provided for Les Perruches, and as examples 
in the Lemons are cited P. alexandri and P. rufirostris. These, as understood 
by Cuvier, were congeneric and are typical Palceornis of Vigors. I have already 
indicated that Conurus Kulil was typified by Lesson by Palceornis and should 
displace it. At the present time Psittacula Cuvier will replace Conurus , 
while Palceornis must altogether disappear. 
Apparently for the South American Parrots now termed Psittacula , 
Boie’s genus name Forpus will come into use. In the Catalogue of Birds 
in the British Museum , Vol. XX., p. 240, 1891, Salvadori wrote : “ Forpus 
Boie, 1858 {fide G. R. Gr. Handlist, II., p. 166, 1870) ” but there was little 
difficulty in tracing Boie’s name as it appeared in the Journ. fur Ornith. 
p. 363 for the year quoted. 
If the facts are displayed they will be more easily understood thus : 
Psittacula Cuvier, Lemons d’Anat. Comp., table at end of Vol. I., 1800. 
Type Psittacus alexandri Linn, will displace 
Conurus Ivuhl, 1820, which equals Palceornis Vigors, Zool. Journ., 
Vol. II., p. 46, 1825, and of Salvadori, Catalogue of the Birds 
in the British Museum, Vol. XX., p. 433, 1891. 
Forpus Boie, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, p. 363 will replace 
Psittacula as used by Salvadori, Catalogue of the Birds in the 
British Museum, Vol. XX., p. 240, 1891. 
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