11. II Yl'Ol/llAKMOSYNA. 73 



Key to the Species. 



I. Inner web of the quills red wUhelminee, p. 73. 



11. No red on the inner web of the quills. 

 «. A yellow band on the underside of the quills. 

 a . Cheeks and throat red in the males. 

 a". No red patch on the upper tail-coverts. 



a"'. Rump blue placenx, p. 74. 



//". Rump green, without any blue .... subplacens, p. 75. 

 b" . A red patch on the upper tail-coverts. 

 c'". lied patch on the upper tail-coverts 

 duller; the female with yellow 



streaks on the ear-coverts rubronotata, p. 70. 



d". Red patch on the upper tail-coverts 

 brighter ; the female with bright 

 green streaks on the ear-coverts. . kordoana, p. 77. 

 b'. Only the upper part of the throat red .... rubru/ularts, p. 77. 

 b No yellow baud on the underside of the quills, 

 which are entirely dusky. 



c'. Thighs red ; face and throat red aureocinda, p. 78. 



it ' . Thighs green. 



c". Very little red round the base of the 



bill palmarum, p. 78. 



d" . No red round the base of the bill .... pygnuea, p. 79. 



1. Hypocharmosyna willielminse. 



Trichoglossus wilhelruinse, Meyer, Jburn. f. Orn. 1874, p. 50 (type 

 examined) ; id. Sitzb. /,-. Ah. Wissensch. Wien, lxix. pp. 74, 100 

 (1874); Sclat. Ibis, 1874, p. 419; Meijer, Sitzb. Isis Dresd. 1875, 

 p. 78; Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 151 (Cmisp. Psitt. p. 87) ; 

 td. Vogelbild. t. xxix. f. 4 (1878-83). 



l'sitteuteles wilhelmina?, Gould, B. New Guin. pt. iii. pi. 6 (1876). 



Coriphilus wilhelminae, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ den. x. p. 30, sp. 84 

 (1872); id. Orn. Pap. e Mo/, i. p. 302 (1880); Sharpe, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 427 (1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. 

 p. 519 (1882) ; Guil/em. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 023; Salvad. Mem. R. 

 Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 174 (1889). 



Ad alt male. Green, underpurts lighter, crown tinged with purple; 

 nape purple, with narrow blue leathers; lower back red, succeeded 

 by a patch of purple, blending into green on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 breast with narrow streaks of yellow, each streak being margined 

 with dark green ; on the flanks a small patch of yellow ; axillaries, 

 under wing-coverts, and inner web of the quills red ; middle tail- 

 feathers green at the base, dark purple at the tip ; the lateral tail- 

 feathers red at the base, and with a dark purple band near the tip, 

 which is green : bill yellow-red ; feet dark grey ; iris yellow. 

 Total length 475 inches, wing 2"75, tail 2, bill 0-47, tarsus 6-38. 



. \,luli f, mill, . 1 )itbrs from the male in having no red on the lower 

 back, which is green *, no yellow spot on the flanks, and no red on 

 the axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner web of the quills, which 

 are green. Total length 4 - 50 inches. 



* Dr. Meyer describes the tower bad of the female as green, but in a specimen, 

 apparently of that sex, in the British Museum collection From S.B Sew Guinea 



the lower back is purple. 



