OF NEW SOUTH WALE8. 256 



25. — Trichoglossds massenj:, B]p., Bev. and Mag. de Zool, 1854, 



p. 157. 

 This species seems universally dispersed over the whole of the 

 South East end of New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain, the 

 Duke of York Islands, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, and New 

 Caledonia, from all of which places I have received specimens, 

 none of which appear to differ, inter se. In the Port Moresby 

 district they were found feeding in the various Eucalyptus and 

 other flowering trees and shrubs. 



26. — Trichoglossus sdbplacens, Sclater, P.Z.S. 1876, p. 519. 

 A female of this species was obtained by Mr. H. Shaw about ten 

 miles inland, near the top of Mount Astrolabe. Mr. Broadbent's 

 collection contains an ad alt male. 



Family CUCULID^. 

 27. — ? Lamprococctx minutilus, Gould. 



This is one of the smaller species allied to L. minutilus and 

 L. russata, both of which it much resembles, the outer webs of 

 the secondaries above are slightly margined with rufous, all the 

 remainder of the upper surface of a rufous bronzy green, all the 

 tail feathers rich rufous, washed with blackish towards the tip, 

 all but the centre two, with a spot of white on the inner web ; 

 the outer on either side barred with black, white, and rafous, the 

 black bands being the broadest and the white the narrowest, the 

 next feather on either side has three bars of black only. 



The chin, throat, and all the under surface of the body and 

 the under tail coverts are whitish, strongly barred with bronzy 

 green, the under wing coverts barred like the breast, except the 

 outer series at the base of the primaries ; the primaries towards 

 the base light rufous, the secondaries white at the base, pale 

 rufous towards the centre of the inner webs. Bill black ; feet 

 ashy grey. Total length, 5*5 ; wing, 3 '8 ; tail, 2*5 ; tarsus, 0*5 ; 

 bill from forehead, 0*65 ; from gape, 0.75. 



The tail is rather square and even, the outer tail feathers being 

 equal in length to the centre ones. The New Grain ea specimens 

 do not materially differ from those from the Rockingham Bay 



