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 birds) have it Iii|;:lil (.live-yoilow, ntliois nlivc-trrcen, otlieff* again (yoiinser liinU') 



irrecn. 



cJ?, Moa, November— DecemWv linrj. (Xos. (J21o-021T, 0311, G;31-', 

 (5313.) 



8 c? 9 , Letti, November 1902. (Nos. .5806-5903.) 



Among these are the finest males, witli olive-yellow crown and partly yellow 

 abdomen. 



16 c? ?, Roma, July 1902. (N"os. ."iKM— .')Uo, six without numbers.) 



" Iris in adult birds orange (pale or reddish orange, pale sienna red, in the 

 brightest yellow S, No. .5900, Letti, vermilion), in young birds (Wetter, etc.) 

 greyish brown (brown, dark brown, greyish oelireoiis), bill vermilion (orange), in 

 young birds dirty orange (pale orange), feet greyish, brownish. 



02. Neopsittacus iris (Tcmm.). 



Psiltacui irk Temminck, P}. Col. 5G7 (1835 : Timor). 

 Trichoglosatis iris Finsch, Notes Leijden Mm. xxii. p. 287 (Wetter). 



AVhlle fully agreeing with Dr. Fiusch in uniting the pseudogenns r.siffi'ideh:^ 

 with Tricltin/los.HU.s, I cannot follow him in also putting into Tr/r/ioi/Zossiis the 

 very different Neopsittuctis iris. These birds do not have the elongated tail of 

 Tnc/iofflo.ssu.% and have a rather different bill (ef. Salvadori, Cat. B. xx.). As 

 far as I can see at present, the geuns Neopsittacus is well founded. 



N. iris differs from jS\ rubripilctun in being considerably larger (wing 122—131 

 mm. against 110—120 in A', rtibripileum), in having the sides of the head generally 

 more greenish, the patch behind the eyes as a rule more purplish, the hinder 

 parts of the pileum with wide blue tips to the feathers, which are sometimes 

 obsolete, while they are absent or greenish in N. r aim pileum. No doubt the two 

 forms will be found to represent each other in various parts of Timor, though 

 their distribution is at present not clear. 



All the Wetter specimens are typical iris. 



16 c? ?, "Wetter, September 1902. (Nos. 5527—5530, six witliont numbers.) 



" Iris orange-red (burnt-sienna red, yellowish orange), bill pale orange, yellow 

 below, feet ash-grey." 



03. Geoffroyus personatus personatus (Shaw). 



PsilUiciis personattdi Shaw, Hen. Zo,,I. viii, 2, p. 044 (IKll : ex Levaillant, " Nouvelle HoUande." 



I accept Timor as the typical locality). 

 Geoffroyus persoitahis Finsch, Notes Lei/den Miis. xxii. p. 287 (Timor and Welter). 



Dr. Finsch, I.e., declares that neither coloration nor size offers anything 

 constant to separate G. p. Jioresianiis, .>sHmhaeemis, and tjii/danac from typical 

 personatus. This statement is very surjirising, and undoubtedly incorrect. Mr. 

 Rothschild and I have {Nov. Zool. 19(il,p. 83) stated the differences of these 

 forms, and I can add that the/emale of G. />. personatus has never (judging from 

 seven .specimens) a red-brown head, as found in the females of //oresianus, 

 Siimbavensts and tjindaiiae. In every way G. p. personatus is most distinct 

 (smallest, lightest, the blue in tlie male not covering the n^-^e), \s'\i\\g Jloresiainis, 

 sumbavensis and tjindanue are darker and larger, the blue reaching farther down, 

 covering the whole najie. It is true that tjindanue is in colour exactly like 

 G. p. sumbarensis, but the wing is distinctly longer (11 specimens examined). 

 6r. p. sumbavensis differs from Jlore.iia/ius in being generally lighter, the under 



