2. CrCLOPSITTACUS. 91 



red on the edges ; wings green ; primaries bluish green on the 

 outer webs ; quills underneath blackish, but sulphur-yellow towards 

 the base ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale verditer-green ; 

 tail above green, underneath olive: bill lead-colour ; feet dusky ; 

 " irides brown" (Hunstein). Total length 7 inches, wing 4 - 3, 

 tail 2-2, bill 0-75, tarsus l>5. 



Bab. North-east of New Guinea, from Kafu to Finsch and Con- 

 st antine Harbour. 



a. $ ad. sk. Finsch Harbour (C. Hunstebi). Purchased. 



3. Cyclopsittacus desmaresti. 



Psittacus desmarestii, Gam. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 600, pi. 35 (1828); 

 Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 149 (1828) ; 8. Mull. Verh. Land- en 

 Volkenk. pp. 22, 107 (1839-44) ; G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 18-08, p. 195. 



Psittacula desmarestii, Less, et Gam. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 628 ( 1828) ; 

 Less. Tr. d'Om. p. 204 (1831) ; Voiyt, Owe. Uebers. p. 748 (1831) ; 

 War/ 1. Mon. Psitt. p. 629 (1832) ; Bowjot, Pen: pi. 85 ( L837-38); 

 Less. Compl. de Buff. Ois. 2nd ed. p. 607 (1838) ; G. P. Gr. Gen. 

 B. ii. p. 423, n. 18 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 90 (1859) ; 

 id. Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 42, 60 (partim) (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 159, 1861, p. 437 (partim) ; Schleff. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 75 

 (partim) (1864); Finsch, Papcuj. ii. pp. 620, 957 (partim) (1868); 

 Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 32 (partim) (1874) ; Meyer, 

 Sitzb. Isis Dresd. 1875, p. 77 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 327 (partim) 

 (1876). 



Cyclopsitta desmarestii, Bp. Rev. et Mar/, de Zool. 1854, p. 154, 

 sp. 219; id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. sp. 230; Sclat. Journ. 

 Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 166, sp. 117 (partim ) (1858) : Wall. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 210 ; id, P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 284 ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 158 (par- 

 tim) (1865) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 168, sp. 8373 (1870). 



Opopsitta desmarestii, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860. p. 227 ; Rosenb. Journ, 

 f. Orn. 1862, p. 64; id. Nat. Tijdicht. Ned. Inch xxv. pp. 144, 

 226 (1863) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 115, n. 29; Sclat. P. Z.S. 

 1873, p. 697. 



Cyclopsittacus desmarestii, Sund, Meth. nat, Av. disp. Tent. p. 69 

 (1872) ; Salrad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 754 (partim), p. 911 

 (1875), viii. p. 397 (187(5), x. p. 27, n. 24 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e 

 Mol. i. p. 150 (1880) ; Rchnif. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 137 I Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 73) ; id. Vogelbild. Xachtr. 20 (1883) ; Saload. Mem. R. 

 Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 160 (1889) ; Trust r. Cat. Coll. B. p. 78 

 (1889). 



Adult male. Green, darker above, paler, yellowish green below ; 

 pileum orange, changing into orange-vermilion on the forehead : 

 cheeks and ear-coverts green washed with golden ; a spot below the 

 eyes and another, nearly concealed, on the occiput bright blue; 

 throat green, two cross pectoral bands, one light blue, and the other 

 orange-brown ; sides of the breast pale blue : rump and upper 

 tail-coverts olive-green ; primary-coverts and outer webs of the 

 primaries towards the base bluish green ; a narrow yellow edge 

 towards the tip of the outer webs of the primaries ; quills under- 

 neath brown with the bases yellow ; under wing-coverts pale green ; 



