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5. Chalcopsittacus duyvenbodei. 



Chalcopsittacus duvvenbodei, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Roy. d'Hist. Nat. 

 Behi. iii. p. 113, pi. v. (1881) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, 

 xl. p. 170 (1889). 



Adult. Dark brown-olive ; forehead, a band starting from the 

 lores, and encircling the naked skin of the cheeks and throat orange- 

 yellow, like the smaller wing-coverts near the bend of the wing, the 

 tibiae, the under wing-coverts, and the inner webs of the quills 

 towards the base ; vertex and occiput dusky olive-brown ; nape and 

 sides of the neck covered with narrow and long feathers, ochre- 

 yellow along the middle ; lower back, rump, and under tail-coverts 

 violet-blue ; ear-coverts, hind part of the cheeks, lower part of the 

 throat, and the whole breast olive-brown, the feathers of the breast 

 yellowish on the edges, and with the hidden part yellow ; primaries 

 and their coverts black ; tail dull purple, the feathers with an olive 

 tinge on their edges, underneath golden-olive : bill, cere, naked skin 

 round the eyes, and on the throat and feet black. Total length 

 about 12 inches, wing 7, tail 5-3, bill 0-95, tarsus 0-78. (Rothschild 

 Coll.) 



Hah. New Guinea (Dui/venhode). 



Only two specimens are known, the type in the Museum of 

 Brussels, received from Mr. Duyvenbode, and the one in the 

 Rothschild Collection. 



6. Chalcopsittacus scintillatus. 



Amber Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. Suppl. p. 65, n. 144 (1787) ; id. Gen. Hist. 

 ii. p. 252 (1822). 



Psittacus batavensis (!), Lath, {nee WagL), Lnd. Orn. i. pp. 12(i, 128 

 (1790); Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 101 (1811); Vieill. N. D. xxv. 

 p. 375 (1817) ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 99 (1820) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. 

 p. 1406 (1823). 



Psittacus scintillatus, Temm. PI. Col. 569 (juv.) (183-5) (tvpe ex- 

 amined) ; id. Tail. Meth. p. 61 ( 1839). 



(1875) ; Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 371 (1879). 

 Psittacus scintillans, 8. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volhenk. pp. 22, 127 



(1839-44). 

 Eos scintillata, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 417, n. 10 (1845); id. Cat. 



B. New Gum. pp. 39, 59 (1859). 

 Chalcopsitta scintillata, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 3 (1849); id. Rev. et 



Maq. de Zool. 1854, p. 156, n. 291 ; id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. 



Psitt. sp. 305; G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 194, 1861, p. 436; 



Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, pp. 64, 65 ; id, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. 



Lnd, xxv. pp. 144, 145, 225 (1863) ; id. Journ. f. Orn, 1864, p. 113, 



sp. 11 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 289 ; G. R. Gr. mind-list, ii. p. 153, 



sp. 8192 (1870) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 862 ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 



1876, p. 692; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 319 (1883) : Tristr. 



Cat. Coll. B. p. 73 (1889). 



