290 XOVITATK.S ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. 



colour. C'ulmen from cere 9-10, wing .j-961-5, tail to end of spines 25-5-27-5, 

 hind toe without claw 15 mm." 



Mr. Meek's part)' collected ten males and females, evidentl}' all adult birds, 

 at Manns from September 5 to 27 (Nos. 5965, 6U23, 6125, f5l26, 0155, 6156, 6157, 

 (■.109, 6170). 



24. Trichoglossus haematodus flavicans *'ab. it Rchw. 



Trichogloa-ms flavicniis Cabanis and Beichenow, Journ.f. Orii. 187G, p. 3.^4 (New Hanover). 



11 c? 9 ad. Minns, September and October 1913 (Nos. 5998, 6154, 6199, 

 6200, 6209, 6218, 0221, 6222, 6223, 6220, 6233). " Iris bright red (once yellowish 

 red). Bill : base red, tip yellow. Feet a sky-blue." 



This beautiful parrakeet differs from T. h. massena and T. h. intennedius 

 in having the inner webs of the outer rectrices almost entirely yellow, only a 

 line near the shaft, sharply divided, remaining green. The occiput is bright 

 brownish purple. Size much larger ! The upperside is not always yellow 1 While 

 in some it is almost golden yellow, when held away from the light, in other skins it 

 is quite as grass-green as in T. h. massena and other forms. Neither sex nor age 

 appears to be responsible for this dichromatism. The feathers of the upper back 

 are greyish at base, green at their tips, red in the middle. So much red is never 

 seen in T. h. masstna, where it is often quite absent, nor in T. h. intermedins, where 

 it is generally a little more developed. T. h. niyroytilaris has generally as much 

 yellow on the rectrices and as much red on the upper back, but it dilFers from 

 T. h. J/acicans in the blue-black, not purple-black throat, wider black edges to 

 the feathers of the breast, and in the colour of the occiput. The peculiar golden 

 yellow variety, moreover, appears to exist only in T. h. flavicans. 



The wings of onr T. h.fladcans measure as follows : 



New Hanover: 148 mm. 



Manns : 146, 148, 149, 153, 155, 149, 150, 148, 149, 150 mm. 



25. Eclectus pectoralis solomonensis Rothscli. k Hart. 



Cf. ^w. Z„i,\. 1901, p. 82, anteh,, p. 210. 



4 S$, 4 ? ? ad. Manns, September and October 1914 (Nos. 0031, 0032, 0037, 

 6093, 6149, 6180, 02O8, 6217). 



Wings of the males 241, 255, 254, 240, females 235, 239, 240, 230 mm. (See 

 antea, p. 211.) 



26. Cuculus optatus Gould. 



Cimdua optaUis Gould, Prac. Zool. Sm-. Li<mh,n, Part xiii, 184o, p. 18 (1845— "Port Essington, 

 Australia "). 



2 (?c? ad. Manus, 1.5., 17. ix. 1913 (Nos. 6071, 6082). 

 Wings 208 and 213 mm. 



27. Cacomantis blandus sp. nov. 



S ? ad. Sides of head and neck, top oi' head and hind-neck to beginning of 

 back ashy grey, rump and upper tail-coverts slaty-grey, sometimes tinged or 

 glossed with bronze; scapulars, u]iper wing-coverts and middle of back glossy 



