_Society Parrot_ Latham, Syn. I p. 250 (1781).
_Psittacus ulietanus_ Gmelin, S.N. I p. 328, n. 85 (1788).
_Platycercus ulietanus_ Vig., Zool. I p. 533, Suppl. pl. 3 (1825).
_Cyanorhamphus ulietanus_ 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.