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 30. Cyclopsittacus inseparabilis Hart. 



In Bull. B. O. riul,,Yo\. VIII. ji. 9 (October 1898),! have already said that in 

 this most interesting little Parrot the sexes are alike in colonr, iiml resemble very 

 much thej'emale of Ci/clopsitt<icus virago Hartert, from Fcrgusson Island, except 

 that the sides of the head are green, with a slight yellowish tinge, in C. inseparabilis, 

 while they are blnish green in the female of C. virago. In C. virago the sexes differ 

 widely. 



J ad. of ('. i>i.ieparabilis : — Bill light slaty blnisli grey, tip darker slate-colour, 

 mandible whitish in the middle. Forehead, above the beak, with a large scarlet- 

 red patch, separated from the green crown by a broad semicircular band of light 

 blue. Uj)per surface yellowish green, darker on the wing-coverts and outer webs 

 of secondaries, innermost secondaries deep red along the outer edge of inner web. 

 Primaries blackish, outer webs dark bine, inner webs of all but the first two pale 

 yellow towards the base. Rectrices dark green, washed with blnish at utmost bases 

 and on the under surface. Under wing-coverts green, blue along the edge of the 

 wing, and the longest series blackish with jiale yellow spots on both webs, about 

 the middle. Under surface light green, broadly streaked with deep yellow along 

 the sides of the body. " Iris brown ; feet greenish slate-colour." Total length 

 about 130 ; wing 89—00 ; tail 43 mm. 



31. Lorius hypoenochrous ft ray. 



In a series of this species from iSudest Island I was struck by the regular 

 presence of a black bar acros.s the under surface of the wing, formed by the black 

 tips to the longer under wing-coverts. Tliis Mack bar is not generally found in 

 specimens from S.E. New Guinea, New Britain, F(>r!;'usson and Woodlark Islands. 

 The type in the British Museum, according to the origiuiil label, is from iSudest 

 Island, and has the black band like all our Sudest s])ecimens. All those from 

 St. Aiguan, both in the Tring and in the British Museum, have an indication of a 

 black bar, some of the outermost under wing-coverts being blackish. There is in 

 the British Jlnsenm also a skin said to be from th(> East Cape in British Xew 

 Guinea, from Huustein, which has the black bar. This skin, however, has no 

 original label, and generally Hunstein's birds were not labelled, like those of 

 Goldie, and a mistake is therefore not impossible with regard to the locality. On 

 the other hand, it seems that immature birds have this black bar : but in the birds 

 from Sudcst, and equally in all from Hosscl Island, the black bar is also present in 

 adult birds. It is thus .advisable to distinguish tlie form without black bar, inhabit- 

 ing the low country of S.E. New Guinea, Fergusson, ^\'oodlark. .\ew Britain, and 

 New Ireland, as a subspecies, which I call 



Lorius hypoenochrous devittatus subsji. nov., 



the tyjie of this subspecies being the Fergussini form, and those from .St. Aignan 

 being intermediate between L. //. ilcvUtatux and /-. /'. hijiiocDOi-hroda. The iris of the 

 latter is red ; bill red ; feet blackish. 



32.^Eclectus pectoralis (i'. I., s. Midi.). 



Two male» do not differ from specimens from the Solomons and Ironi New 

 Guinea. The Am birds can be separated snbspecifically. 



