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Fig. 2 on PI. III. is the Pitta dohertj/i, described in Bull. B. 0. Club, Vol. VII. 

 (No. LI.), Febrnary 1808, and in Vol. V. of this journal, p. 130. It is one of the 

 prettiest ornithological discoveries of Mr. Doherty, who obtained one adult male, one 

 female, and one young male on Sula Maugoli. 



ON SOME SPECIES OF THE GENERA CYGLOPSITTA AND 



PTILINOPUS. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 

 (Plate IV.) 



FIGURES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (i and 7 of PI. J V. show the heads of four allied species 

 of the genns Cydopsittu. 



Figures 1 and 2 are the male a,m\ female of C. macleaijana, described by Ramsay 

 in the Si/diteij A[orn>ng Herald oi November 15th, 1(S74. The name macleai/atia 

 has been substituted in the (.'atnloguc of Birds, XX. p. 95, by C. maccoyi 

 Gould, 1875, while M'Coy himself described it again as C. leadheateri in the same 

 year (1875). This bird is only known from North Queensland, where Mr. Meek 

 collected some for the Tring Museum. 



Figures 3 and 4 ai'e male and female of C. viracjo, described by me from 

 Fergusson Island, where Meek discovered it some years ago. He afterwards found 

 it also on Goodenough Island. 



Figures 5 and 6 are C. ariiensis, distributed over the Am Islands and southern 

 New Guinea. The figures are from Aru specimens, collected by Capt. ('. Webster. 



Figure 7 is C. inseparabilis, in which the sexes are priictically alike and 

 resemble the females of C. virago and others, while in C. virago, aruensis and 

 macleayana, they are very differently coloured. (See Nov. Zool. V. p. 530.) 



Figure shows rtilinojjus gnnudifrons, a little green pigeon from Obi Mayor, 

 in the Moluccas, which closely resembles P. hyognstcr from Halmahera and I'atjan, 

 except for the grannliform mass of fleshy knobs on the forehead, and a more 

 yellowish green plumage. It is described in Bull. B. 0. Cli/b, VII. p. 35 (1808). 



