THE



Avicultural Magazine


THE JOURNAL OF THE

AVICULTURAL SOCIETY



Fourth Series. —Vol. XII.—No. 12 .—All rights reserved. DECEMBER, 1934.



THE DIADEMED AND SALVIN’S PARROTS


In the British Museum Catalogue of Birds , vol. xx, is a coloured

plate of the heads of certain Amazon Parrots, which is supposed to

show the characters of the different species ; but being drawn from

dried skins a very important difference, revealed in the living specimens,

has been missed.


Mr. Herbert Whitley, with his unrivalled series of living examples

of Amazona, is responsible for the discovery that in Amazona

diademata the red feathers in the forehead project forward and com¬

pletely cover the nostrils, whereas in A. salvini, the most nearly-

related species, as in others of the genus, the nostrils are fully uncovered.

We are indebted to Mr. Whitley for the loan of the accompanying

photographs.


D. S-S.



NOTES ON THE CYANORHAMPHUS

PARRAKEETS


By Sydney Porter


(Continued from page 285)


The Chatham Island Parrakeet (Cyanorhamjphus forbesi)


While the Red-fronted Parrakeet has many forms and sub-species

found on far outlying islands, even as far as the Society Islands, the

Yellow-fronted species has (or had) but one ally, namely Forbes or


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