84 toRTiD^:. 



15"5 inches, wing 5 - 6, tail (longest feathers) 10-4, bill 08, tarsus 

 0-55. 



Female. Lower hack and sides of the rump bright yellow, sur- 

 rounded below with green. 



Young male. The crimson feathers of the neck and breast 

 margined with purplish ; abdomen and thighs more or less green 

 and blue ; back yellow, more or less red. 



Hub. S.E. New Guinea. 



a, h. $ ad., c? .Mount Owen Stanley. C. Hunstein [C.]. 



imm. sk. 

 c, d. J J imm. Astrolabe Mountains. Hon. H. Romilly [P.]. 



sk. 

 e, f. <$ 5 ad.na- Astrolabe Mountains. A. Goldie, Esq. [C.]. 



tive sk. 



3. Charmosyna josephinje. 



Triehoglossus josephinse, Finsch, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xv. p. 427, 



tav. 7(2) (1873); Meyer, Journ. f. Orn. 1874, p. 55; id. Sitzb. 



k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxix. pp. 74, 76, 401 (1874) ; id. Sitzb. 



Isis Dresd. 1875, p. 78: Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 591 (1878-79) ; 



Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 153 (Consp. Pmtt. p. 89) ; id. VogeU 



bild. t. xxix. f. 6 (1878-83). 

 Charmosyna josepbinse, Gould, B. of Xew Gum. pt. iii. pi. 3 (1870) ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. x. p.* 37, n. 02 (1877) ; Mei/er, Vor/el- 



skelelt. p. 1, Taf. ii. (1879) ; Salvad.Orn. Pap. eMol. i. p. 325 (1880) ; 



Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 624; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. 



ser. 2, xl. p. 176 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll, B. p. 74 (1889). 



Adult male. Carmine ; back and wings green ; on the occiput a 

 large spot dark purple-blue, becoming black lower down ; a spot on 

 the middle of the upper tail-coverts dull blue ; middle of the abdo- 

 men and thighs purple-black ; above the thighs some yellow streaks ; 

 tail-feathers red, with the tip yellow, the lateral ones more or less 

 dull green in the middle : bill red ; feet and iris orange. Total 

 length 10-22 inches, wing 4-9, tail 4*7, bill 0-72, tarsus 0-55. 



Female, Rump and flanks next to the rump yellow. 



Hob. N.W. New Guinea. 



a,b. d 2 a(1 - &• Passim, N.W. New Guinea Tweeddale Coll. 



(Dr. A. B. Meyer). 

 c. Ad. sk. New Guinea. L. Laglaize [C.]. 



14. OREOPSITTACUS. „ 



Type. 



Oreopsittacus, Salvad. Ann, Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 37 (1877). O. arfaki. 

 Range. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



1. Oreopsittacus arfaki. 



Trichoglossus (Charmosyna) arfaki, Meyer, Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. 



Wien, xxiv. p. 37 (1874) (type examined). 

 Trichoglossus arfaki, Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wissensch, IVien, lxix. 



