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the shaft-stripes on the feathers of the neck and breast varies very much, according 

 to age and freshness of plumage, and perhaps to sex in specimens from the same 

 localities. 



4. Chalcopsittacus scintillatus chloropterus Salvad. 

 This form inhabits British New Guinea, and meets with C. scintillatus 

 scintillatus along the Fly River. We have three fine skins of C. scintillatus 

 chloropterus from the Brown River, collected by Weiske. 



5. Chalcopsittacus duivenbodei Dubois. 



Besides three skins purchased from various persons, we have three others 

 with indications of locality. One of these was purchased from Mr. van Renesse van 

 Daivenbode, with the distinct statement that it was killed at Tana Mera, 140i°, on 

 the north coast of Dutch New Guinea, near Humboldt Bay. From the evidence 

 of other skins that came with this Parrot, we are confident that this statement is 

 correct. Another was shot and skinned (poorly enough) by Captains Cotton and 

 Webster, on November 18th, 1893, at Stejjhansort, and an adult male collected by 

 Doherty in October 1897, at Takar, between Humboldt Bay and the Ambernoh 

 River. Doherty marked the feet and bill as black, the iris as vermilion, with a 

 black outer ring and inwardly yellow, the bare skin round the eyes, cere and chin 

 blackish. 



We have thus now a distribution of this singular and rare Parrot along the 

 north coast from Takar to Stephansort in Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. 



The specimen from Stephansort is more bluish on the hiud-neck, and smaller 

 than the others. The comparison of a series is therefore desirable. 



6. Eos fuscata Blyth. 



This well-known Parrot is only known from New Guinea and Salwatty, and 

 the islands in the Geelvink Bay. 



Dr. Meyer {Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 6, Taf. 1) described specimens from 

 S. E. New Guinea as a different species, " Eos inconditu," but we find that none 

 of his characters hold good, and we are not able to separate any forms at present. 

 It is true that specimens from Jobi and Ron are generally largest and finest, but 

 they are matched by many others from the Berau Peninsula, Kaiser Willielm's 

 Land and British New Guinea. 



Eos fuscata is found in the plains, but it reaches to more than C-'iOO feet 

 in the mountains of British New Guinea. 



It is dimorphic, a red and a yellow phase, with intermediate colourations, 

 being known. The yellow birds are neither the females nor the males, as our 

 se-xed material, especially that from Doherty and Dr. Erik Nyman, shows. Nor 

 are they young, as we have a youngish bird with brownish-blackish bill and very 

 small wings, which is red, though not so bright as adults. 



We have before us 45 individuals. 



T. Eos cyanogenia Bp. 

 Mr. Doherty sent us ten from Mefor (Mafor) Island, two from Biak and one 

 from Korrido (Schouten Islands). " Iris orange, feet blackish, bill vermilion, cere 

 black." A young male differs only from the adult birds in having blackish edges 

 to the feathers of the neck and underside. 



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