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yellow ish-greon baud on the nape, the feathers of this band have a 

 concealed red band in the middle ; the interscapular feathers have 

 i '-uli a concealed red band : lower throat and upper breast bright 

 red, with purple-black cross bands at the edges of the feathers ; 

 middle of the abdomen green ; lower abdomen and flanks yellow, 

 with green cross bands ; under tail-coverts yellow, with green tips ; 

 sides of the breast red, with the feathers edged with green ; flanks 

 and under wing-coverts red ; quills beneath dusky, with a very 

 broad yellow band at the base ; on the inner secondaries the yellow 

 baud is stained with red ; tail underneath olive, inner web of the 

 tail-feathers yellow : bill orange-red ; feet lead-colour ; iris red. 

 Total length from 12-10-60 inches, wing .5-70-5-20, tail 5-30—P70, 

 bill 0-05-0-85, tarsus 0-08-0-66. 



Young. Has the occiput greenish ; the interscapular feathers 

 green without the concealed red spots, the red of the breast paler ; 

 the feathers of tbe breast with a narrow yellowish line before the 

 green edge. 



I lab. The Amboyna group and Western Papua— Amboyna, Ceram, 

 Bouru, Goram, Western New Guinea, eastwards as far as the upper 

 part of the Fly Paver, Mysol, Salwatty, Batanta, Waigiou, Miosnom, 

 and Jobi. 



«• Ad. st. Amboyna. Massena Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Amboyna (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Amboyna {Hoedt). Ley den Museum. 

 rf.Ad.sk. Ceram' (A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. ? ad. sk. Bouru. A. R. Wallace [C]. 



/. Ad. sk. Bouru (A. R. Wallace). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



<j. Ad. sk. Goram. A. R. Wallace [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Goram {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Dorey. A. R. Wallace [C.]. 



k. Ad. sk. New Guinea. 



l - Ad - sk. New Guinea. Tweeddale Coll. 



wj.2ad.sk. Humboldt Bay. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



n, o. 2 ad. et ad. sk. Amberbaki, May. L. Laglaize [CI. 



p. Ad.sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace TCI. 

 q-t. Ad. sk. L J 



u. Jut. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace [C]. 



v. Ad. var. st. Moluccas. Purchased. 



to. Skeleton. New Guinea. 



4. Trichoglossus massena. 



Trichoglossus massena, Bp. Rev. et Ma,j. dv Zool. 1854, p. 157 (type 

 examined); id. Naumannia, 1850, Consp. Psitt. sp. 313 ; G' R 

 Qr.Lut Psitt. Brit Mas. p. 61 (1859); id. Cat. B. Trop.'lsl 

 p. 33 (1850); Sc/at. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 228; Wall. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 pp. 292, 295; 8chkg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 110 (1864) ; FkudL 

 Pa pay. ii. p. 834(1868) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 119, 123, 124; 

 G. R. Gr. Ila>id-list, ii. p. 155, sp. 8214 (1870) ; id. Ann. ,V Mag. 

 N.K.{\) v. p. 330 (1870) ; id. Cruise of Curacoa, Birds, p. 382 

 pi. 15 (1>7.;) ; Salvad. ,y DAlb. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 813 

 (1875); Tristr. Ibis, 1876, p. 263 ; .Sal rod. Ann. Mm. do. Gen. 

 ix. p. 16 (1876), x. p. 36, n. 78 (1877) ; »lat. P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 108; 



