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a, b. Ad. st. No locality. Purchased. 



c. Ad. st. No exact locality. Zoological Society. 



rf.Ad.sk. No locality. Gould Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Timor Belli, April 1801. Wallace Coll. 



2. Trichoglossus forsteni. 



Psittacus forsteni, Temm. in Mus. Luffd. 



Trichoglossus forsteni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 3 (1850) (Sumbawa) ; id. 

 Compt. Rend. xxx. p. 134 (1850) ; id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool, 1854, 

 p. 157, no. 296; id. Naumannia, 1850, Consp. Psitt. no. 310; G. 

 R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 60 (185<J) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 220; Wall, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484, 1804, pp. 291,295; Schleg. 

 Dierent. p. 77 (with figure) (1864); id. Mus. P.-B. Psittac'i, 

 p. Ill (1804); Finsck, Neu-Gvin. p. 158 (1865); id. Papag. ii. 

 p. 826 (1868) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 156, no. 8220 (1870); 

 Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Recue, p. 46 (1874) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn, 

 iii. p. 657 (1877); Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn, 1881, p. 157 {Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 93) (partim) ; id. Voqelbild. Nachtr. Bericht. (part.) 

 (1883) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 502 (Bima, Sumbawa). 



Trichoglossus immarginatus, Bluth, Journ. A. S. B. xxvii. p. 279 

 (1858) ; G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436. 



Psittacus (Trichoglossus) forsteni, Rosenb. Journ, f. Orn. 1862, p. 66 ; 

 id. Nat, Tijdschr. Ned. Lid. xxv. p. 146 (1863). 



Adult male. Back, wings, and tail green ; head purple-brown, 

 front and lores slightly tinged with blue, vertex with a faint 

 tinge of green ; a greenish-yellow band on the nape ; the inter- 

 scapular feathers have concealed red spots, and are edged with 

 brown-purple ; throat and middle of the abdomen dark purple ; 

 breast pure bright red, with no dark cross bands ; flanks, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts yellow, with the feathers broadly tipped with 

 green ; under wing-coverts red ; the quills beneath dusky black 

 with a yellow oblique band ; tail-feathers underneath oily, with a 

 very narrow yellow edge on the inner web : " bill red, yellow at 

 tip ; feet olive-green " (Guillemard). Total length about 10 inches, 

 wing 5-3, tail 4-2, bill 0-8, tarsus 0*61 {Rothschild Coll.). 



Hub. Sumbawa. 



I have described an adult male, collected by Dr. Guillemard, 

 now in the collection of Mr. Walter Bothschild. T. forsteni 

 appears to me to be quite different from T. mitchelM, with which it 

 has been associated by Dr. Iteichenow. T. forsteni is a larger bird, 

 with a stronger and larger bill, has the head more decidedly purple, 

 and no green colour on the throat, which is purple ; the breast pure 

 red, with no yellow tinge towards the edges of the feathers ; the 

 middle of the abdomen is brownish-purple, with no green whatever. 

 I cannot understand what considerations have induced Dr. Iteichenow 

 to unite T. forsteni and T. mitcJulli in one species. 



3. Trichoglossus cyanograinrnus. 



Psittaca Amboinensis vara, Brits. Orn. iv. p. 364 (1700). 

 Pt'iTiiche d'Amboina, Daubcnt. PI. J-.'nl. 61 (tig. bona). 

 La Perruche a face bleue, Buff, llitt. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 150 (1779). 

 Red-breasted Parrot, Lath. 8yn. i. p. 212 (sine var.J (1781). 



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