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Cabanis & Heine, Mits. Hein. II. p. 159, named the Aru birds Sauropatis 

 grayi (descr. nulla !) ; but from glancing at them in the British Museum I could 

 not see any differences from Australian specimens. E. H. 



47. Lorius hypoenoclirous G. I?. Gray. 



Fergusson, Trobriands, and Woo<llark. " Iris red.' Sexes quite alike. 



48. Cyclopsittacus virago Hartert. 



Fergusson Island only. See Nov. Zool. II. p. 01. 



49. Loriculus aurantiiirons meeki Hartert. 

 Fergusson Island only. See Nov. ZooL. II. p. 62. 



50. (?) Nasiterna pusio Scl. 



Fergusson Island. Two vmles and some nestlings from Fergusson Island are 

 rather small, have a bluish tinge on the breast, hardly any yellow on the under parts, 

 and the forehead and sides of the head not so orange, but rather browner. They 

 differ, however, from each other a little, and I am therefore in doubt whether they 

 belong to a distinct local form, or whether they are merely immature specimens. 

 I am not at all sure that the specimens from the Duke of York group and from 

 " S.E. New Guinea " are fully the same. The type has been described from the 

 " Solomon Islands," which was evidently wrong. E. H. 



51. GeoiFroyus aruensis (Gray). 



Evidently not rare in Fergusson Island. Iris in both sexes very pale yellow, 

 sometimes nearly white ; feet and legs dark grey. E. H. 



52. Eclectus pectoralis (P. L. S. Mtill). 



Evidently common on Fergusson and Kiriwina, Trobriands. The (green) males 

 have the iris mostly marked "red," some "yellow." The (red) females also have 

 these two colours marked on the labels as those of their irides. E. H. 



53. Cacatua triton trobriaudi (?). 



h female from Fergusson Island has the wing only 26.S mm. ( =: 10'4 in.), which 

 is decidedly less than the length of the wing of C. triton. Salvador! {Cat. B. XX. 

 p. 119) says : " The specimens from the Western Papuan Islands, and especially from 

 the Aru Islands, are generally smaller than those from the mainland, and have even 

 been separated specifically as C. macrolopha Eosenb. ; but I do not think that we are 

 justified in accepting this view, especially when we consider the great range of 

 individual variation." Dr. Finsch, in his interesting book Samoafahrten, p. 208, says 

 that the natives in the Trobriand Islands brought to him " lebendo Exemplare einer 

 eigenen kleinen Kakaduart mit gellier Haube, Cacatita Irobriandi Finsch." This 

 name he considered afterwards (Salvadori, I.e.) as a synonym of C. tritan. 



No description of " Cacatua trobriandi Finsch " has ever appeared. Most likely 

 the Fergusson Island cockatoo belong.s to the same form as that from Trobriand. It 

 is still smaller than those from the Western Papuan Islands, Sahvatti, Mysol, etc., the 



