74 LORIIDJS. 



Hob. New Guinea, from Andai on tho western coast of Geclviok 

 Bay to the Astrolabe Mountains in the south-eastern part. 



a. S ad. ; b, c. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New A. Goldie [C.]. 



Imm. ($ sk. Guinea. 



d. 2Pad.sk. S.E. New Guinea. H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



[C.]. 



2. Hypocharmosyna placens. 



Psittacus placentis (!), Temm. PI. Col. 553 (1835) (types examined) ; 

 Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 606 (1838) ; Temm. PI. Col. i. Tail. 

 Meth. p. 61 (1839) ; 8. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 23, 107 

 (1839-44). 



Conurus placens, Bourjot, Perr. pi. 46 ( d et 2 , ex Temm.) (1837-38). 



Psittacus (Trichoglossus) placentis, S. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 472 (1839-1844). 



Coriphilus placentis, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 417, no. 7 (1845); 

 id. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 182, 194; id. Cat. B. New Gum. pp. 41, 59 

 (1859) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mm. p. 59 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 357, 1861, p. 436 ; Rosenb. Reis naar de Zuidoostereil. pp. 48, 80, 

 87, 100 (1867). 



Psitteuteles placens, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157, sp. 307 ; 

 id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. sp. 321 ; Gould, B. of Neiv Guin. 

 pt, iii. pi. 7 (1876) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 74 (1889). 



Trichoglossus placens, Sclat. Journ. Pi: Linn. Soc. ii. p. 164, sp. 105 

 (1858) ; id. P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 226, 227 ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 872 

 (1868) ; Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxix. pp. 400, 

 401 (1874) ; id. Sitzb. Isis Dresd. p. 78 (1875) ; Rchnw. Journ. f. 

 Orn. 1881, p. 150 {Consp. Psitt. p. 86) ; id. VogeVbild. t. xxix. f. 4 

 (1878-83); Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. i. p. 275 (1884). 



? Trichoglossus versicolor (f), Wall. Ibis, 1801, p. 284 (Ceram). 



Trichoglossus placentis, Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, pp. 61, 62, 65, 

 67 ; id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 140, 141, 142, 145 (1863). 



Charmosyna placentis, Wall. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 292 (cum var. a et b), 

 p. 295. 



Coriphilus placens, Schler/. Dierent. p. 78, with fig. (1864) ; Finsch, 

 Neu-Guin. p. 158 (1865) ; Salcad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 36, 

 sp. 85 (1877) ; D'Alb. e Salvad. Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 42 

 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 303 (1880) ; Bias. P. Z. S. 

 1882, p. 702; Pleske, Bull. Acad. Pttersb. xxix. p. 524 (1884); 

 Nehrk. Journ. f. Orn. 1885, p. 31 ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, pp.565, 

 623 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 174 (1889). 



Nanodes placens, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 113 (1864) ; id. Ned. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 336 (1866) ; id. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, 

 p. 50 (1874) ; Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 6, 113 (1875). 



Psitteuteles placentis, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 157, sp. 8235 (1870). 



Charmosyna (?) placens, Salvad. Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 760 

 (1875). 



Charmosyna sp., D'Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 9 (1877). 



Very much like H. subplacens, from which it differs in having a 

 large blue spot on the uropygium. 



Adult male. Green ; crown yellow-green ; underparts paler ; 

 cheeks, throat, sides of the breast, and under wing-coverts bright 

 red ; car-coverts blue ; a large patch of blue on the uropygium ; 

 a yellow band on the underside of the wing ; tail green, the two 



