1. CHALCOPSITTACUS. 17 



Chalcopsitta scintillans, Bp. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 26; Sclat. Journ. Pr. 



Linn, Sue. ii. p. 165, sp. Ill (1858); id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 227. 

 Chalcopsitta rubrifrons, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 182, 194, pi. 135 



( c? fig. opt.) ; Sclat. Ibis, 1859, p. 102 (note) ; G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 436. 

 Eos sciutillatus, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mm. p. 53 (1859). 

 Eos rubrifrons, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 53 (1859); id. 



Cat. B. Neio Gum. pp. .'39, 59 (1859) ; Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, 



p. 114, sp. 15; id. Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 48 (1867). 

 Domicella scintillata, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 752 (1868); Meyer, Sitzb. 



k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxx. p. 238 (1874) ; id. Sitzb. Isis Dresd. 



1875, p. 78; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 147; Sharpe, Journ, Pr. Linn. 



Soc, Zool. xiii. p. 80 (1878); Rchnic. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 106 



(syn. emend.) (Consp. Psitt. p. 102) ; id. Vogelbild. t. xxxi. f. 2 



(1*878-83). 

 Chalcopsittacus scintillatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen, x. p. 34, 



n. 75 (1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 93 ; D'Alb. et Saload. Ann, Mus. 



Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 37 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 274 



(partim) (1880); id. Vol/. Chall, Birds, p. 75 (1881); Sharpe, 



Goulds B. New Gain. pt. xiv. pi. 2 (1883) ; Meyer, Zeitschr. f. 



ges. Orn. i. p. 274 (1884) ; Guil/em. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 622 (Aru 



Isl.) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 171 (1889). 



Adult. Green, hind neck, upper hack, breast, and abdomen streaked 

 down the shafts with yellow ; sinciput, lores, and upper cheeks red ; 

 vertex, occiput, sides of the head and chin black ; throat and sides 

 of the breast stained with red ; lower back and rump bright green, 

 with a blue tinge ; breast dark green, with orange-yellow shaft- 

 streaks ; tibioe and under wing-coverts red ; under tail-coverts 

 green ; quills underneath dusky, with a well-defined yellow area 

 towards the base ; tail-feathers green above, red for the basal half 

 of the inner web ; the apical part of the tail-feathers underneath 

 yellowish olive : bill, cere, and feet black ; iris orange-yellow. 

 Total length 11-8 inches, wing 7"2, tail 4-5, bill 0-9, tarsus 0-85. 



Young. The head is entirely dark chestnut, with no red on the 

 forehead. 



Hah. Western New Guinea, meeting with C. chloropterus along 

 the Fly Eiver ; Aru Islands. 



a, b. <$ 2 a d. sk. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



(Types of Chalcopsitta rubrifrons, G. K. Gr.) 



c. $ ad. sk. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Aru Islands (.4. R. Wallace). Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Aru Islands. Gould Coll. 



/, g. cJ ad. sk. Wokan, Aru Islands. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Aru Islands. Tweeddale Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Wallace Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. New Guinea. Tweeddale Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Doktur, N.W. New Guinea. Purchased. 



7. Chalcopsittacus chloropterus. 



Chalcopsittacus chloropterus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 15 

 (1876) (Hall Bay), x. p. 34, n. 76 (1877) ; D'Alb. Sydn. Mail, 1877, 

 p. 248 ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 8 (1877); Salvad. ibid, (note) 

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