RED-CHEEKED PARROT. 
page, dated 1812, which was the correct date and therefore Pechstein’s name 
had clear priority and must be used. 
I thus made use of it in my List of the Birds of Australia . I might 
also note that in the Quart. Journ. iSci., Vol. XIX., p. 198, 1825, Swainson 
described a new Parrot “ from Australia ” under the name Psittacus fieldii. 
This was synonymised by Salvadori in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British 
Museum , Vol. XX., p. 405, 1891, as possibly referable to the species Geoffroyus 
rhodofs , a species from the Moluccas, and that the locality Australia was false. 
I at once referred to this description upon the receipt of Australian specimens 
of the genus Geoffroyus, but I agree with Salvadori that the description does 
not fit the present species and that it was probably based on the Moluccan 
species, and that Swainson’s locality was erroneous. 
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