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green upper surface hy a distinct yellow liand, but tlieie is ouly an indicated, more or 

 less concealed, line of yellow. Wings hlackisli ; outer webs of primaries and primary 

 coverts blue ; this blue not so clear on tlie web of the first primary, but not altogether 

 absent from it. Wings underneath with two pale yellow bands, one across the quills, 

 the other across the greater under wing-coverts, which are otherwise blackisli. 

 Keraainder of under wing-coverts green, blue along the outer edge of the wing. 

 Sides of body yellow. A more or less concealed deep red spot on the inner webs 

 of the two innermost great wing-coverts. 



Total length about 15 cm. (6 inches) : wing 81 to 87 nun. (3-3 to 3-45 inches); 

 tail about 48 mm. ; cuhnen 15 mm. Iris hazel (A. S. Meek). 



Adilt Fi:MALi:. — Everywhere like the male, excejit on the head. The sinciput 

 is blue, in the midst of it a round spot of about 5 mm. (more or le.ss) in diameter. 

 Cheeks yellowish green, strongly washed with blue. Lores green. Size like the 

 male. Iris dark hazel, feet grey (A. S. ^leek). Bill horn-colour (in skin). 



All the specimens were collected on Fergus.-;on Island in September 1894. 



The male of this i)rettv new little parrot is very similar to that of C. ariiensis 

 (Schleg.), hitherto only known from the Aru Islands and the middle of Southern 

 New Guinea, along the Fly Kiver (cf. Salvad., Cfal. B., xx., p. 97, and Orn. Pap. 

 e MoL, i., p. Ifil), but can easily be distinguished by the characters given in the 

 diagnosis above. 



The female differs entirely from tlie female of C. aruensis (which has no 

 red on the head), and the red spot on th(» forehead makes it look much more 

 male-like. 



3. Loriculus aurantiifrons meeki subsji. nov. 



Salvador!, in Cat. B., xx., p. 538, has remarked that two females of Lorlcidns 

 aurantiifroiis Schleg. from S.E. New Guinea have longer wings than specimens 

 from N.W. New Guinea, and that they want the reddish base to the feathers of 

 the forehead. Mr. Albert Meek has now sent two males and three females from 

 Fergusson Island. They all have a longer wing, i.e. 72 to 74 mm., than Arfak 

 specimens, of which I measured five, none of which had a wing exceeding 68 mm. 

 in length, and none of the feraales show a trace of red on the bases of the 

 feather's on the forehead. I therefore believe it is justifiable to separate the south- 

 eastern form of this pretty little parrot under a subsjiefific name as L. aurantii- 

 frons meeki. The specimens before me were shot in Septenilii'r, and the iris of all 

 of them is marked as " white." 



4. Ptilopus lewisii vicinus mi1is|i. nov. 



Several specimens of a fine Ptilopus resemble very much Ptilopus leivisii Rams, 

 hitherto known only from the Solomon Islands (cf. Salvad., Cat. B., xxi., p. 153), but 

 on careftilly comparing, some differences are clearly obvious. 



The purple-red patch of the lower throat and upper breast is not surrounded by 

 such a distinct line of purple, this latter only being indicated. The purple-red 

 ])atch itself is not quite so large in the new subspecies. The round delicate grey 

 spots on the innermost greater wing-coverts are distinctly larger. The grev spot on 

 the shoulder does not reach so far towards the margin of the wing as in P. leivisii; 

 the grey throat is .seijaraled (nioro or less distinctly and broadly) from the purple-red 



