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3. Chalcopsittacus insignis. 



Chalcopsitta insignia, Oust. Assoc, Sc. de France, Bull. no. 533, 



p. 247 (1878); Salvad. Atti 11. Ac Sc. Tor. xiii. p. 312 (note) 



(1878). 

 Chalcopsittacus bruijnii, Salvad. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor. xiii. p. 310 



(1878); id. Ibis, 1*70, p. 105. 

 Chalcopsittacus insignis, Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 272 (1880) ; 



id. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 171 (1880). 

 Domicella insignis, Rchmo. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 165 (Consp. Psitt. 



p. 101) ; id. VogeMld., Nachtr. 39 (1883). 



Adult. Purple -black ; pileum darker, nearly black ; forehead and 

 cheeks tinged with red ; concealed part of the feathers of the neck 

 and of the breast red : tibia? red ; uropygium dark blue ; scapulars 

 purple-brown ; the edge of the wing and the under wing-coverts 

 red; quills with the base of the inner web rod; tail above violet, 

 with the base brown, and towards the tip greyish, beneath purple- 

 rod, towards the tip golden olive-yellow : bill, cere, naked skin of 

 tin' chin, and feet black. Total length 11 inches, wing 7, tail 4-S7, 

 bill 0-04, tarsus 0-78. 



Hub. Ainberpon Island, Geelvink Bay. 



4. Chalcopsittacus stavorini. 



Psittacus stavorini, Less. Toy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 355 (1826), p. 628 



(1828); Drsm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxix. p. 00 (1826) ; Salvad. Ibis, 



1870, p. 106. 

 Eclectus paragua, part., G. R. Or. Gen. B. ii. p. 418, n. 3 (1815). 

 Stavorinius paraguanus, part., B/>. Consp. Ac. i. p. 4 (1840). 

 Stavorinus paragua, Bj>. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. sp. 259. 

 Psittacodis stavorini, Sclat. Jburn. Pr. Linn. >S<>c. ii. p. 165, u. 114 



(1868); id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 227; Rosenb. Jmn-n. f. Orn. 1862, 



p. 63; ill. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 113. 226 (1863); 



Bernst. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. p. 206 (1864) ; Rosenb. 



Journ.f. Orn. 1864, p. 115, sp. 23. 

 Eclectus paraguanus, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mm. p. 67 (1859) ; 



id. Cut. Ii. Ni-ir G iii n. pp. 40, 59 ( 1859). 

 Eclectus stavorini, Wall. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 286; Gieb. Thes. Om. ii. 



p. 76 (1875). 

 Lorius stavorini, Finsch, Nn-Gnin. p. 158 ( 1865). 

 Domicella stavorini, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 758 (1868); Rchnw.Journ, 



f. Orn. 1881, p. 165 {Consp. Psitt. p. 101). 

 Psittacodis stavorinus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 154, sp. 8107 



(1870). 

 Chalcopsittacus stavorini, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Cir. Gen. x. p. 34, 



no. 74 (1>77) ; id. Orn. Pap. c Mol. i. p. 273 (1880); id. Mem. R. 



Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 11 (1S80). 



Shining black; abdomen red; size of Lorius lorn. 



Hab, Waigiou. 



No specimen of this species exists in any museum : there is 

 some probability that it was described from memory, as the typical 

 specimen was lost. 1 have entertained some suspicion as to its 

 being Identical with C. insignis, Oust. 



