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Key to the Species. 



I. Underparts with shaft-streaks goldiei, p. 08. 



II. Underparts with no shaft^streaks. 



a. A red spot on the crissum diadematus, p. 68. 



b. No red spot on the crissum ; hind neck olive. 

 a'. Cheeks with no red. 



a". Larger ; ear-coverts red, like the forehead . cuncinnus, p. 69. 

 b". Smaller ; ear-coverts yellow mixed with red, 



like the forehead porplujrocephaliis, 



b'. Cheeks, as well as the forehead and chiu, all [p. 70. 



round the base of the bill, red pzisillus, p. 71. 



1. Glossopsittacus goldiei. 



Trichoglossus goldiei, Sharjie, Jown. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvi. pp. 318, 

 426 (1882); Rchnio. Vogelbild. Nachtr. n. 29 (1883); Sharpe, 

 Gould's B. New Guin. pt. xiv. pi. 3 (1883) ; Rchnw. fy Schal. Jown. 

 f. Orn. 1883, p. 416. 



Neopsittacus goldiei, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 419, n. 11 

 (1882) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 519 (1882) ; id. Mem. R. Ac. 

 Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 173 (1889). 



Adult male. Green, pileum crimson ; from behind the eye a 

 broad purplish-blue band extends to the occiput ; lores, sides of 

 face, and ear-coverts lilac-red ; the upper ear-coverts and feathers 

 of the nape washed with lilac-blue, the last are faintly edged with 

 dull red ; hind neck mottled with yellow-green edges to the 

 feathers; under surface of body and under wing- coverts yellowish 

 green, streaked with darker green down the centre of the feathers ; 

 quills dusky below, with an oily yellow spot on the inner web, 

 forming a diagonal band across the underside of the wing ; tail 

 green, underneath oily green : bill black ; feet dark. Total length 

 7 inches, wing 4-20, tail 3'10, culmen 0-55, tarsus 0-50. 



Female or immature bird. Similar to the adult, but the red on the 

 head confined to the forehead ; the vertex and the occiput have the 

 feathers purplish blue towards the tip and green at the base. 



Hah. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New Guinea. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. A. Goldie [C.]. 



b. $ or irnm. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. A. Goldie [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



2. Glossopsittacus diadematus. 



Psitteuteles diadema(!), Verr. et O. Des Murs, Rev. et Maq. de Zool. 



1860, p. 390, 1862, p. 132 ; Marie, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. xxvii. 



p. 327 (1870) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 362 ; Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 253 ; 



Oust. Bull. Soc. PMom. Paris, iii. p. 218 (1879). 

 Trichoglossus diadema, G.R. Gr. Hand-list,ii.-p. 157, n. 8232 (1870) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1882, pp. 526, 543. 

 Trichoglossus diadematus, Finsch, Papiq. ii. p. 867 (1868); Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 657 (1877) ; Rc/mu: Journ. f. Orn. 1881, 



p. 147 (Consp. Psitt. p. 83) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. h. 28 (1883). 



Female. Green, lighter on the forehead, lores, below the eyes, on 

 the ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and under surface ; crown blue : 



