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or (juite to the base of the culmeu. The ni'tks of the Ara form do uot differ per- 

 ceptibly from S. torotoro typica. 



Specimens from Fersrusson Island are rather dark below, bnt a young indi- 

 vidual from Waigiii is similar in this respect. In one of the Fergusson /ma^«s the 

 head-spot is placed more backwards than usual, and thus it seems somewhat to 

 point towards the Aru subspecies. According to Salvadori (^Orn. Papmisia, I. 

 p. 48.5) females from Naiabui in S.E. New Guinea resemble those of Aru, 

 and therefore most likely belong to the same subspecies. Another species has 

 been recently described as S. nu'(jarhjncha by Salvadori from the Owen Stanley 

 Mountains. 



The last form of the genus S'lma is called -S'. Jlavirostris and inhabits North 

 Queensland. In the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XVII. p. 197, it is said to differ from 

 S. torotoro in wanting the black mark along the tip of the culmeu — and this state- 

 ment has been made before. However, it is quite wrong, the fully adult S. torotoro 

 never having any black mark on the culmen, a character peculiar to immature birds 

 of <S. torotoro only. On the other liand, I have not yet seen a S>//»,aJfac/rostris quite 

 without a black mark, and I believe that even the most adult birds have it. In any 

 case it is a bad character for distinguishing these species, the much lighter and more 

 greenish colour of the upper parts being the best distinguishing character of 

 the Queensland form. The subspecific name proposed above is the native name of 

 the bird in Aru, as Torotoro is its name in Dorey. E. H. 



34. Sauromarptis gaudichaud (Q. & G.). 



No distinction from typical skins of New Guinea. There is certainly not more 

 white on the back; on the contrary, some of our birds from New Guinea (we have 

 now thirty-six without duplicates) show more white on the back. The blue of the 

 rump of most of our Aru birds is rather dark, while it is certainly paler in most of 

 the skins from S.E. New Guinea, but not constantly. The so-called Sauromarptis 

 kubaryi seems to differ in no way from S. gaudichaud typica. 



W. R. & E. H. 



25. Sauromarptis tyro (Gray). — 26. Microglossus aterrimus (Gm.). Wing only 

 330 mm.^2T. Cyclopsittacus aruensis (Schleg.). — 28. Trichoglbssus nigrogularis 

 Gray. Large and fine birds; wings loO, 152, 153 mm. 



29. Chalcopsittacus scintillatus (Temm.). 



The majority of the Aru specimens have the breast more washed with brown 

 and have very dark orange stripes along tlie shafts of the feathers on tlie breast as 

 well as on the hind- neck, but the British Museum possesses specimens from New 

 Guinea that are just like our Aru skins. Tlie plumage of the sexes and ditfereut 

 ages of this bird are not yet properly known. Some birds (^ females) have the 

 rump distinctly bluish, some have no orange stripes at all. 



W. R. & E. H. 



30. Eclectus pectoralis aruensis (Gray). 



Specimens from the Aru Islands have the tail in both se.xes very prominently 

 tipped with yellow. I do not find this so much in any other specimens from other 



