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U. Arses henkei A. 15. Meyer. 

 Both sexes from Mount Victoria, Sogere, and Oriori. Tliese birds are distinct 

 enough from A. teleoscophthalmits, but I have none from Aru to compare, with which 

 Shai-pe and Salvador! formerly united the S.E. New Guinea bird that Meyer named 

 A. henkei. (Zeitsckr.f. ges. Orn. III. p. 16, pi. iii.) E. H. 



15. Ptilotis polygramma (Gray). 

 Oriori district. Dr. A. F>. Meyer, ZeUschr. f. ges. Orn. III. p. 24, speaks of 

 some apparent differences of Soutli-Eastern specimens from such of North-Westem 

 New (iuinea. Salvadori declares he cannot find differences. I have no material for 

 comparison at present. E pj 



10. Ptilotis visi llartert. 

 Two from Oriori, confirming the notes of myself (aw^w, p. 15) and of Mr. Grant 

 in the Ibis, 1896, p. 251. E. H. 



17. Lorius erythrothorax Salvad. 



One skin only, shot on January 16th in the Oriori district. It is marked ? , and 

 I believe it to be immature. The hind-neck is more green than bhie, the feathers 

 being green with deep blue edges ; the feathers of the interscaimiium are green with 

 broad dark blood-red borders. A purpUsh blue band across the crop-region (often 

 indicated in L. enfthrothorax); the abdomen mixed puqilish bhie and green, the basal 

 parts of the feathers being green. The under wing-coverts red, mixed with green and 

 with a little blue. The tail, seen from above, is green at base, then red, the tip 

 purplish blue ; between the puii^lish blue tip and the red band is a green area, often 

 confined to the inner webs. In Professor :Mivart's wonderfully illustrated Monograjjh 

 of the Lories, p. 52, the tail is described wrong, as he evidently forgot to look under 

 the U])per tail-coverts. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer described a L. salvadoril from Astrolabe Bay, German New 

 Guinea, which differs from L. erythrothorax in its blue under wing-coverts. I have 

 one before me from Simbang, German New Guinea, collected by Capts. \\'cbster and 

 Cotton, which has the under wing-coverts blue, slightly intermixed with red ! Another 

 skin from the same place is a typical L. erythrothorax, but there are a few blue tips 

 to the red under wing-coverts, a character also visible in a supposed skin of 

 L. erythrothorax from an uncertain locality in the Tring Museum. 



I have no doubt that L. salvadorii, and perhaps also L. rubiensis, will be no 

 more than subspecies when more material has come to hand. E. H. 



" Iris dark brown." 

 " Iris yellow." 



It^. Cyclopsitta suavissima Scl. 

 1!'. Trichoglossus massena Bp. 



20. Eos fuscata Blyth. 

 A male and a. female, February. The male is very red, the female in a transition 

 from the yellow to tlie red phase. " Iris of both sexes'yellow." Dr. A. B. .Meyer has, 

 in the Zeitschr.f. d. ges. Orn., 1886, p. 6, separated the S.E. New Guinea form from 



