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9. Erythrura forbesi. 



Erythrura tricolor {nee Vieill.), Schiter, P. Z. S. 1883, pp. ol, 200. 

 Erythrura trichroa (nee Kif.tl.), Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 443 ; id. 

 Nat. Wand. Malay Arch. p. 365 (1885). 



Adult male. Similar to E. tricolor, but with the hinder head 

 entirely green like the back, without any wash of blue on the head, 

 back, and wings. Total length 4 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1"15, tarsus 0*55. 



Hab. Tenimber Islands. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Loetoer, Timor Laut, Sept. H. O. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



19, 1882. 



10. Erythrura tricolor. 



L'Azuvert, Vieill. Ois. Chajit. p. 43, pi. 20 (1805). 



Fringilla tricolor, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 233 (1817) ; id. 



Enc. Meth. p. 974 (1823). 

 Diacmura tricolor, Eeichenb. Sinffv. p. 48, pi. xvil. fig. lo6 (1861). 

 Erythrma tricolor, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486; Scl. Ibis, 1881, 



p. 545. 

 Amadina tricolor, Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 58, no. 6807 (1870). 



Adult male. Above green, the head washed with blue, which also 

 overspreads the neck and mantle ; wing-coverts and the inner 

 seeondaries green, washed with blue ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dusky brown, externally narrowly fringed with gi-een, 

 yellower on the primaries ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts 

 scarlet ; tail-feathers dusky brown, externally dull red ; forehead, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat purplish blue, shading off 

 into paler cobalt-blue on the sides of the crown, sides of neck, lower 

 breast, and abdomen ; thighs ochreous yellow ; wing-coverts ochreous 

 buff ; axillaries green. Total length 3-9 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 

 2-05, tail 1-15, tarsus 0'55. 



Hob. Timor. 



a. Ad. sk. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



11. Erythrura kleinschmidti. 

 Amblynura kleinschmidti, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 440, pi. xxix. 



Front, fore part of cheeks to the posterior edge of the eye, and 

 chin black ; vertex obscure blue ; upper surface dark grass-green, 

 the same as the outer edge of the remiges, which are blackish brown 

 like the tail-feathers ; upper tail-coverts splendid scarlet-red ; under- 

 parts grass-green, much brighter and lighter than the upper parts ; 

 ear-region bright greenish yellow ; under wing-coverts isabelline ; 

 biU and feet ivory-yellow in the skin, in the living bird apparently 

 flesh-coloured ; nails dark brown. Total length 4 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 2-5, tail 1-15, tarsus 0-85. {Finsch.) 



Hah. Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. 



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