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CYANORHAMPHUS ULIETa.n.u.s (GM.)

_Society Parrot_ Latham, Syn. I p. 250 (1781).

_Psittacus ulieta.n.u.s_ Gmelin, S.N. I p. 328, n. 85 (1788).

_Platycercus ulieta.n.u.s_ Vig., Zool. I p. 533, Suppl. pl. 3 (1825).

_Cyanorhamphus ulieta.n.u.s_ Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p.

153, n. 188.

_Platycercus tannaensis_ Finsch, Papag. II, p. 272 (1868).

_Psittacus fuscatus_ Pelz., Ibis 1873, p. 30.

_Adult_: ”Olive brown, the head brown-black; rump and basal upper tail-coverts brown-red, the longest upper tail-coverts olive brown like the back; underparts olive-yellow; quills, primary-coverts, under wing coverts and tail-feathers grey; bill black, base of upper mandible grey; feet brown.” (Salvadori, Cat. B. XX p. 579). Wing 5.3 inches, bill 0.8 inches, tarsus 0.8 inches, tail 5 inches.

Habitat: Ulietea, Society Islands (fide Latham).

The type from the Leverian Museum is in Vienna, and a specimen from Bullock's collection is in the British Museum. These are the only two specimens known, and as it is now more than a hundred years since anyone has procured a specimen, we may suppose that this is an extinct species.

The specimen in Vienna, which I have recently been able to examine, has the head, back, wings, and tail deep umber-brown, the rump dark-crimson, upper tail-coverts olive, underside brownish yellow.

CYANORHAMPHUS SUBFLAVESCENS SALVADORI.

_Parrot from Lord Howe Island_ Phillips, Bot. Bay, p. 225 (1789).

_Cyanorhamphus subflavescens_ Salvadori, Ann. & Mag. (6) VII, p. 68 (1891).

Very similar to _C. cooki_ and _C. saisseti_ and intermediate in size.

Above more yellowish than _C. saisseti_, below more greenish, tail shorter than in either of the latter.

This species is believed to be extinct. Last year I received some specimens of a _Cyanorhamphus_ from an inhabitant of Lord Howe's Island, but from subsequent letters these appear to have been collected on Norfolk or Philip Island, and they certainly are _C. cooki_.

Habitat: Lord Howe's Island.

A pair in the British Museum appear to be the only known specimens.

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BUBO(?) LEGUATI NOM. NOV.

_Strix sp._ Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (5) XIX p. 13 (art. 3.) 1874.

Milne-Edwards had only a single tibio-tarsus of this form and described this bone, but refrained from giving it a specific name, though he stated it was probably a small _Bubo_, in the hopes of getting more material.

As, however, we have no further specimens, I think I am justified in naming it after Leguat, who first mentions Owls on Rodriguez. Milne-Edwards'