2. CYCLOI'SlTTACr/S. 99 



orange ; sides yellow ; quills brown ; primary-coverts and primaries 

 on the outer webs deep blue ; the innermost greater wing-coverts 

 with a concealed yellow spot on the inner webs ; quills underneath 

 with a yellowish-white band : under wing-coverts pale green, those 

 near the carpal edge blue ; tail green : bill, foet, and irides black. 

 Total length about ~r2 inches, wing '6-2, tail 1*3, bill Oo, tarsus 

 0-42. 



Adult female. Like the male, from which it differs in having the 

 cheeks blue, the ear-coverts and the sides of the neck orange, aud 

 the breast greenish with an orange tinge. 



Young male. Like the female, but the forehead scarcely tinged 

 with blue, the lores yellowish white ; cheeks greenish, tinged 

 with blue on the upper parts ; ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and 

 throat pale yellow ; breast yellowish, each feather edged with 

 dusky. 



Hub. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. Gould Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. K.Broadbent,Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. A. Goldie [C.]. 



/. <$ ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea {R. Hun- Tweeddale Coll. 



stein). 



g. Ad. sk. S. New Guinea (A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. S. New Guinea. A. Goldie [C.]. 



13. Cyclopsittacus melanogenys. 



"Psittacula melanogenia, Rosenb." Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. Hi. 



p. 330 (1866) (type examined) ; Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. In I. 



\xix. p. 142 (1867) ; id. Reis naar de Zuidoostereil. p. 49 (1867) ; 



Schlec/. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 35 (1874) ; Rosenb. Matin/. 



Arctiip. p. 593 (1878-79). 

 Psittacula melanogenys, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 626 (1868) ; Gieb. T/ies. 



Om. iii. p. 328 (1876). 

 Cyclopsitta melanogenia, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 168, sp. 8378 



(1870); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 520 j Gould, B. of New Guin, 



pt. vii. pi. 12 (1878). 



Voy. ChalL, Birds, p. 74 (1831); Rehnw. Joitrn. f. Om. 1881, 

 p. 395 (Consp. Psitt. p. 75 b); id. Voqdbild. Nachtr. 25 il ->:!): 

 Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges.Orn. i. p. 273 (1884) ; Salvad. Mem. R. 

 Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 162 (1889). 

 Cyclopsittacus fuscifrous, Salvad. Ann. Mux. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 14 (1870), 

 'x. p. 28, n. 32 (1877); If Alb. Sydn. Mail, 1 -77, p. 248 j id. Ann. 

 Mm. Civ. Gen. x. pp. 8, 19 (1877) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 366. 



Adult male. Green, abdomen and under tail-coverts paler; sin- 

 oiput, feathers round the eyes, and a spot behind tho eyes brown ; 

 sides of the head whitish, with a large black spot on the cheeks ; 

 the leathers of the throat show a faint bluish tinge : breast orange ; 



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