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56. Nasitema viridifrons Rothsch. & Hart. 



(? ad. Forehead green, crown dark blue. Sides of head greenish bine or 

 bluish green. Quills blackish, outer webs with green, inner webs towards the 

 base with j-ellowish edges. Rectrices with very (4 mm.) long bare tips of shafts 

 (" spines"). Middle rectrices blue, the remainder of them black with bluish green 

 outer edges, the three lateral ones with wide dark yellow tips to the outer webs. 

 Underside yellowish green, middle of abdomen orange-red, sides of belly and the 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow. Wing 66 or 67 mm. 



? Without the orange-red patch to the middle of the abdomen. 



One pair from spirits from New Hanover (Webster coll.). 



57. Nasitema finschi Rams, and N. nanina Tristr. 



Both inhabitants of various islands of the Solomon group, and both as yet 

 unrepresented in the Tring Museum. 



58. Nasitema keiensis Salvad. 

 Eleven specimens in the Tring Museum from the Key Islands. 



Nasitema aolae Grant. 



We have one of the co-types, a male collected by Mr. Woodford on Gnadalcanar 

 5.6.1887. The iris is marked as "orange." Another specimen, shot on Tulagi, 

 1.8.1898, not sesed, but marked a "junior," appears to be a young m(de of 

 N. aolae, though adult birds may show some differences from typical iV. aolae. 



59. Nasitema geelwinkiana Schleg. 



Schlegel described {Ned. Tijdschr. Dierft. IV. p. 7, 1871) the Nasiternae 

 from Mafor and Misori together under the name of geelwinkiana. He duly stated 

 the differences between the specimens from Mafor and Misori, but he did not 

 separate them from each other. Count Salvadori renamed both forms under the 

 names of misorieims and maforensis, because Schlegel's name referred to two 

 separate forms. We, however, do not approve of this system, but follow the usual 

 custom in such cases, namely, restricting the first name to one of the two forms 

 to which it was given. The first locality being Mafor, we restrict the name of 

 geelwinkiana to the Mafor bird, accejrting, of course, misoriensis for the Misori 

 form. 



We have a series of fourteen, unfortunately all very bad skins (Doherty coll.), 

 from Mafor. Several have a yellow patch behind the blue crown. 



60. Nasitema misoriensis Salvad. 



Known from Schouten Islands (Biak and Korido = Misori) only. Doherty 

 failed to obtain specimens, and so it still remains unrepresented in the Tring 

 Museum. It is said to differ from the former by the absence of blue on the crown, 

 which is brown, and has the yellow patch on the hinder parts of the crown well 

 developed — but this is also found in geelwinkiana. 



