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This species resembles Geoffroyus avuensis (G. R. Gr.), but it is larger, has the under 

 wing-coverts of a darker blue, and the female has a darker brown head. 



The type of Psittacus fuscicapillus, Vieill., is certainly a female of this species ; but 

 the description is wrong, as also the locality. 



Psittacus rhodops, G. R. Gr. (I.e.), is said to be from Waigiou and Mysol ; but 

 knowing that in these islands lives a representative form, Geoffroyus pucherani, Bp., I 

 thought that it could not be the same bird as Eclectus rhodops, Schleg., from the Ceram 

 group ; accordingly I gave to Schlegel's species the name of Geoffroyus schlegeli. Having, 

 however, quite recently seen Gray's types in the British Museum, I find that they really 

 belong to the Ceramese species ; and I am craite sure that the localities Waigiou and 

 Mysol are wrong. Those specimens no longer bear Wallace's original labels, which cir- 

 cumstance may explain how it is that wrong localities have been attributed to them. 



3. Ceyx lepida, Temni. 



Ceyx lepida, Temni., PL Col., 595, f. 1, Amboyna, 1836 ; Sharpe, Mori. Alced., pi. xlvi., part 2, 

 1868 ; Salvad., Proc. ZooL Soc, 1878, p. 81. 



[No. 303. Female. Bill and legs red ; eyes black. Stomach had insects.] 



4. Macropteryx mystacea, Less. 



Cypselus mystaceus, Less. Voy. Coq. ZooL Atlas, pi. xxii., 1826 (type examined). 

 Macropteryx mystacea, Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. x. p. 311, sp. 1, 1877; Proc. ZooL 

 Soc, 1878, p. 81. 



[No. 298, male ; 299, female. Eyes black. Stomach had insects.] 

 Two specimens — one " male " (No. 298), with the brown spot on the ear-coverts, and 

 one female (No. 299), without the brown spot. 



5. Cyrtostomus zenobia, Less. 



Cinnyris zenobia, Less., Voy. Coq. ZooL Atlas, pi. xxx. fig. 3, 1826, i. 2, p. 679, 1828. 1 

 Cinnyris clementice, Less., Diet. Sc. Nat., voL i. p. 18, 1827. 



Cyrtostomus melanogaster, G. R. Gr., Hand-list, vol. i. p. 112, sp. 1390, 1869 (descr. nulla). 

 Cyrtostomus zenobia, Salvad., Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor., vol. xii. p. 319, 1877 ; Proc. ZooL Soc, 1878, 

 p. 81. 



[No. 308, male; 312, female; 313, male. Eyes black. Stomach contained 

 insects.] 



Three "males" (Nos. 308, 312, 313), apparently fully adult ; all three have the 

 feathers of the forehead tipped with metallic blue ; one of them (No. 313) has the upper 

 parts more greenish than the other two, which have the same parts of a rich olive-brown. 



1 I have not been able to find the type of this species in the Museum of Paris. 



