11. HrPOCHAEMOSYHA. 7o 



middle feathers with the tip red, the lateral tail-feathers red at the 

 base, with a black band in the middle and yellow tips; bill and feet 

 coral-red; iris yellow. Total length 7 inches, wins- 3-60, tail 3-20 

 bill 0-50, tarsus 0-40. ~ ' 



Adult female. Upper parts, including the pileum, green ; a blue 

 patch on the uropygium ; cheeks, underparts, and under wing-coverts 

 lighter green ; ear-coverts with yellow streaks ; tail as in the male. 

 Dimensions a little smaller than in the male. 



Hub. The Western Papuan subregion— New Guinea from the Fly 

 River to the western coast, Salwattv (?), Waigiou, Guebeh, Myaol 

 Aru and Kei Islands, Khoor, Poulo-Padjang, Goram, Ceram Atn- 

 boyna, Amblau, Puru (?), Halmahera, Patchian, Ternate. 



a, b. 6 ? ad. st. New Guinea. Purchased. 



c. S ad. sk. New Guinea. Tweeddale Coll. 



rf.cfad.sk. Probably Aru Islands. Gould Coll. 



e. d ad. sk. Aru Islands (A. B. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



f-h. tfad.; t,k. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



? ad. sk. 



I. 2 ad. ak. Halmahera. Wallace Coll. 



m, n. & ad.; o, Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



/'. $ ad. sk. 



q. 2 ad. sk. Wahai (Hoedt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'•• V ad. sk. Amboina {Hoedt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Hypocharmosyna subplacens. 



Trichoglossus subplacens, Sdat. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 519, 1871, p. 108, 

 1878, p. 671 ; Ham.mii, Pr. Liwt, Soc. N.S. IV. iii. p -J-',.', (]S7S)' 

 iv. p. 96 (1879) ; Finsck, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 12 ; Finsck, Ibis, 1881 

 p. 538; Bchnw. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. ]50 {Comp. Pdtl p 86) • 

 al. VogtMJd. in the text of pi. xxix. (1883) ; Shorpe, Journ. Linn 

 Soc., Zoolof/,/, xvi. p. 427 (1882) ; Finsch, Vog. der Siidsee, p. 18 

 (1881) ; Fmsch v. Mci/er, Zeitsrhr. f. '/»•-'■ Orn. 188i">, p. 9. 



Psitteuteles subplacens, Sclat. in lift, j Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen 

 ix. p. 16 (1876): Gould, B. of New Guin. pt. v. pi. 10 (1877): 

 Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 74 (1889). 



Coriphilus subplacens, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. x. p. 86, sp 80 

 (1877); id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 310 (1880), iii. p. 519 (1882) 

 (New Britain) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 347 (Fead Island, east of 

 New Ireland); Salvad. Mem. B.Ac. 8c. Tor. ser. 2 \1 n 171 

 (1889). ' F ' 



Adult male. Green ; pileum yellow-green, with the base of the 

 feathers partly red; underparts yellowish green: cheeks, throat, 

 sides of the breast, and under wing-coverta bright red: ear-coverts 

 blue: a yellow hand on the underside of the wing; tail green, the 

 two middle tail-teat hers with the tip red. the lateral tail-feathers 

 red at the base, with a black band in the middle and yellow tips: 

 "bill and feet coral-red; iris orange" (Layard). Total length 

 7 inches, wing 3*70, tail 3"10, bill <>-?>: K tarsus 0-40. 



Adult female. Upper parts, including the pileum, green ; cheeks, 

 underparts, and under wing-coverts lighter green ; ear-coverts with 

 yellow si reaks ; tail as in the male. 



