( «5) 



light green, as in the allies. The sides of the head are strongly washed with 

 lilac-bine. The green colour is darker and less tinged with yellow, and the whole 

 bird is larger ; wing 5 — 10 mm. longer. 



Only known from Rossel Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago ; 7 si)ecimens 

 before us. 



80. Geoffroyus personatus jobiensis (Salvad.). 



Differs from all the former subspecies by the large red patch on the rump. 

 The red on the forehead is rather wide and very gradually merging into the violet 

 of the crown. We do not consider the red rnnip as a specific character, as it 

 is frequently present or absent in the Gfo/>m/«,s of the Northern Moluccas. The 

 interscapular region is more or less tinged with golden brown. The wing-coverts 

 have sometimes, though seldom, a red-brown spot. 



We have a good series from Konstantinhafen (Kubary), Stephansort (Dr. Erik 

 Nyman), and Jobi Island (Gnillemard, Doherty). 



This form is distributed from Jobi, along the north coast of New Guinea, to 

 the Astrolabe Bay, while in the Huou Gulf district it is replaced by the G. personatus 

 orientalis of Meyer. 



81. Geofiroyus personatus mysoriensis Meyer. 



Differs from jolfiensis in the m'l/r sex in the wide extent of the blue of the 

 crown, which extends all over the hind-neck, and the equally wide extent of the red 

 in front, which covers the whole foreneck ! In the frmale the brown reaches down 

 over the hind-neck. The green colour is very dark, the interscapulium has no 

 brownish tinge. The rump is darker red than in jobiensis, the same as in pucherani. 



Only known from Biak and Korrido (Misori). We received only 2 from Biak. 



82. Geofiroyus personatus pucherani Bp. 



Differs from jobiensis in having the uropygium darker and of a more brownish 

 red, the forehead narrower red, the axillaries and under wing-coverts of a much 

 darker blue, and less often a brownish tinge on the interscapulium. The wing- 

 coverts have no red-brown patch. 



G. dorsalis {Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. j). 410) is evidently an aberration of 

 pucherani, for a similar reddish brown saddle is sometimes indicated as jobiensis 

 (See Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1897, p. 209. G. dorsalis does not, however, belong to 

 jobiensis, but to pucherani, as shown by the deep brown-red rump.) 



This form seems to be found in the Berau Peninsula, at Kapaur (Doherty), 

 Lobo (Miiller), Rubi (Meyer), Sorong, Salwatty (H. Kuhn), Batanta, Waigiu, 

 Mysol, and KoflSao. The locality Gebe is most likely erroneous. We have 1.5 skins. 



S;3. Geofiroyus cyanicoUis cyanicoUis (S. Miill.). 

 This form we have kept specifically different from the personatus grouj), 

 because we find no intergradation between it and the latter, nor the light greeni>h 

 blue collar indicated in the per.w/Hitus group ; and, moreover, a collared species 

 (G. simplex), which is apparently more closely related to the ci/anicollis group than 

 to jiersoniitiix and its allies, occurs in New Guinea, apjiarently in the same country 

 which is frec[Uented by pucherani and aruensis. 



