C IT ) 



Centropus menebeki TiO^s. of Oain. 



r^ ml. :\railn dishii-t. Aut,ni>t .•jfli, 189o. ■'Iris pink." Wing •2?,0 mm., 

 tail 'M>5. 



Sauromarptis gavxdichaud (t^'aoy & Gaim.). 



Dacelo iiaiulichainl Quoy & Gaim., Vnij. Aiil. ,1. Miiwh ZiKil. p. 112. PI. XXY. (1>*24). 



Mailu. 



The name of tbis large kingfisher is S. [/niuUchaAid, and not »S'. guudlchaudi, 

 as spelt by modern ornithologists. IMessrs. Qiioy & Gaimard spelt it without an i, 

 and there is no reason to alter their spelling. 



No white on the back in our specimens from British Xew Guinea, but we have 

 one from Aru and one from (ierman New Guinea, collected by Kubary, which have 

 also no white on the bade. The lilue in our bird from Constantinhafen {S. kubaryi 

 ]Meyer, Ihis, 1890, p. 414) is in no way more whitish or silvery cobalt than in others, 

 but its bill is larger than in any other specimen before me. S. huhdvyl is certainly 

 not a species, but it may possibly stand as a local subspecies. K. H. 



Dasyptilus pesqueti (Less.). 



Two specimens from ]Mailu. In comparing these skins and one from the Owen 

 Stanley .Mountains with one from Constantinhafen, German New Guinea (Kubary 

 coll.), and sixteen from the Arfak region (Arfak, Dorey), I cannot find any constant 

 differences. Females are smaller, but I cannot see that the red colour is less bright ; 

 it is, however, absent on the .side of the occiput in one female. E. H. 



Neopsittacus puUicauda Hartert sp. nov. 



Speciei Xeojrjsittacvs iiniHscherdyfoeld dictae similis, sed occipite nuchaque 

 obscuriore, cauda supra obscuriore, infra virescente (nee ochraceo-flavo vel aurantio), 

 breviore, distinguendiis. 



Hab. Owen Stanley ^Mountains (type from the Victoria district). 



The Neopsittacus of the mountains of British New Guinea differs from K. 

 musschenbroeki Schleg. from the Arfak Mountains in the hinder part of crown, 

 occiput, and uape being dark green, with a \ery slight brownish red wasli and some 

 very faint yellowish streaks, while these parts are olive-brown with a strong orange 

 shade and very distinct yellow shaft-stripes in N. mussclienbroelil. The tail is a little 

 shorter than in the latter, of a. much darker green above and without an indication of 

 orange tips, below dark brownish green instead of ochre-yellow or orange. It seems 

 also that the red on the breast and middle of abdomen is much more extended, but 

 this character varies with age. Mr. C. W. de ^'is, in the Report on Ornitholof/ic(d 

 Specimens collected in British Neiu Guinea oi 1894, mentions on p. 1 that he liad 

 specimens of a parrot collected on ]Mount Manaeao, at elevations of 5000 and 5650 feet, 

 in April, which he " referred with diffidence to N. musschenhroeki" as he noticed 

 some peculiarities, but the characters he mentions, viz. a yellow bill and tlie green 

 of the outermost tail-feather being confined to the base of the outer web, are not 

 clear. The bill in the skin before me is orange-yellow, and the extent of the deep 

 red colour in the rectrices is the same as in i\'. raiisschenbroeki, where, however, it 

 varies a little. Its total length is about 190 mm., the wing 102 mm., tail 80 mm., 



tur.sus 12 mm. ''- H- 



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