320 Recent Ornithological Publications . 
Mr. Gould will excuse us for remarking that Amydrus tristrami 
is from Palestine, not Asia Minor ; and that Parus dichrous be¬ 
longs to the section Lophophanes, which appears to be fairly 
separable, generically, from Parus*. 
The Trustees of the British Museum have lately published 
Part III. Sect. II. of the ‘ List of Specimens of Birds in the 
Collection/ embracing the Psittacidce. Like the other bird- 
catalogues, it is written by Mr. G. R. Gray, and bears evidence 
of his usual laborious painstaking in the compilation of syno¬ 
nyms. In his present arrangement, Mr. Gray has yielded to a 
certain extent to the principles of geographical zoology as now 
recognized; as, for example, in separating Chrysotis from Psit- 
tacus , Loriculus from Psittacula, &c«, but he has not, in our 
opinion, carried these principles to their legitimate development. 
Although we should at present be almost afraid to enter the lists 
on behalf of Prince Bonaparte's theory, that the Parrots of the two 
hemispheres are as distinct as the Monkeys, we have little doubt 
that this position will ultimately be established, when the osteo¬ 
logy and anatomy of the group have been properly worked out. 
Such being the case, we look uppn all generic combinations of 
Old World and New World species as unnatural; and we are sorry 
to see that Mr. Gray still unites Caica and Pionus with Psit- 
tacus, Agapornis with Psittacula, and so on. With regard to 
other points, we may remark that from Mr. Wallace's observa¬ 
tions (Ann. Nat. Hist. Feb. 1859, p. 147) it now seems certain 
that Eclectus does not belong to the Loriince. Again, Masca - 
rinus (meaning Mascarene, i. e. Madagascarian) surely cannot 
be used generically or subgenerically for a group of Moluccan 
Parrots. Its proper type is the Psittacus mascarinus of Gmelin, 
from Madagascar. It is true that Lesson unnaturally associated 
with this bird the Green Parrots of the Moluccas, and put them 
both in the same genus— Mascarinus; but, when we refer them 
to their respective positions, Mascarinus must be applied to the 
Madagascar bird, and the Green Parrots of the Moluccas require 
a new appellation, which, as it has been already suggested, may 
be Polychlorus j\ 
Though the characters of new species given in the notes 
* Confer Cassin in “ Birds of California, Oregon, &c.,” p. 18. 
t See Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 226. 
