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Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 319 (1883); SAarpe, Report 

 'Alert; p. 25 (1884) ; Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 17, n. 518 (1888) ; 

 Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 74 (1889) ; North, Descr. Cat. Nests $• Eygs, 

 p. 266 (1889).* 



Adult. Back, tail, and wings green, the whole of the head and 

 the middle of the abdomen blue ; a yellowish-green band on the 

 nape ; breast yellow, more or less stained with red along the middle, 

 sometimes almost entirely red, except on the sides ; some very 

 narrow cross lines of a blue colour, nearly vanishing, on the breast ; 

 flanks green, with the base of the feathers yellow, stained with red ; 

 under tail-coverts yellow at the base, green at the tip ; under wing- 

 coverts red ; a yellow band on the under surface of the wing ; inner 

 web of the lateral tail-feathers yellow : bill red with yellow tip ; 

 feet dark : " iris reddish brown, with a narrow ring of dark brown 

 next the pupil " ( Gould). Total length 12 inches, wing 6*7, tail 5*5, 

 bill 07, tarsus 0-5. 



Young. Breast yellow, with scarcely any red colour ; yellow- 

 green band on the nape scarcely visible. 



Hab. Eastern Australia from Cape York to Victoria, and Tas- 

 mania {Ramsay). 



a. Ad. st. Australia. Zoological Society. 



b-e. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



f, y. Ad. sk. Australia (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Australia. Mrs. Mauger [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Australia Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Australia. J. E. W. Pishton, 



Esq. [P.]. 



/. <$ ad. sk. Prince of Wales Isl., Torres Str., ' Alert ' Expedition. 



July 1881. 



m. $ ad. sk. Cape York. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



n. Ad. sk. Cape York. Purchased. 



o. Ad. sk. Somerset, Cape York. Tweeddale Coll. 



* TRICHOGLOSSUS VKEEEADXTCS. 



Trichoglossus verreauxius, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 157, n. 352 

 (Australasia) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 61 (1859) ; id. Hand- 

 list, ii. p. 156, n.8221 (1870). 



Trichoglossus verreauxi, Bp. Xauma/inia, 1856, Coiisp. Psitt. n. 315 ; 

 Finsch, Papay. ii. p. 846 (1868) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 660 (1877); 

 Echnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 155 {Consp. Psitt. p. 91) ; id. Voyelbild. 

 Nachtr. 33. 



Bright green; cheeks and throat bluish; breast, abdomen, and sides with 

 irregular yellow and orange cross bands ; forehead and eyebrows red ; middle 

 of the back with yellow spots {Bonaparte). 



Hab. Unknown. 



This bird, which, according to Bonaparte, is a large and true Tricho- 

 ylossus, was only known from Bonaparte's original and incomplete description : 

 the type specimen is in the Museum of Paris ; but there is a second specimen in 

 the British Museum, which has been labelled by Dr. Finsch as T. verreauxius; 

 it agrees pretty well with Bonaparte's description; it is not symmetrical, and 

 after some consideration I have arrived at the conclusion that most likely 

 it is a hybrid between T. nova hollandia and Glossopsittacus concinnus. 



a. Ad. sk. Melbourne. Gould Coll. 



