144 psitxacid^;. 



blue with the shaft black, the remaining tail-feathers black, with 

 the outer webs green towards the base, blue towards the tip, and 

 with a yellow spot at the tip of the inner web : bill very deep and 

 strong, dusky like the feet. Total length 3-55 inches, wing 2-3, 

 tail 1-2, bill 0-38, tarsus 0-34. 



Female. Like the female of N. misoriensis, green ; middle of the 

 underparts greenish yellow ; pileum brown, each feather with blue 

 edges ; cheeks brown, with the edges of the feathers slightly tinged 

 with blue ; under tail-coverts yellow ; wings and tail as in the male. 



Hal. Mafor Island, Geelvink Bay. 



8. Nasiterna pusio. 



Nasiterna pusio, Sclat. P. Z. S. I860, p. 620, pi. 36 ; Finsch, 

 Papag. i. p. 327 (1867); Select. P. Z. 8. 1869, pp. 124, 126; 

 G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 168, n. 8382 (1870) ; ScMeg. Ned. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 5 (1871) ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 26, n. 14 (1877) ; Gould, Ii. of New Gum. 



pt. vi. pi. 12 (1878) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 289; Camerano, Atti 



R. Ac. Sc. Tor. xiii. p. 301, pi. xvi. (1878) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 11 ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e. Mol. i. p. 127 (1880) ; Rchmc. Vogel- 



bild. t. xxv. f. 5 (1878-83) ; id. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 141 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 77) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1882, p. 140 ; Sclat. ibid, note ; Tristr. 



I. c. p. 143, n. 63 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1882, p. 473 ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. 



e Mol. iii. p. 514 (1882) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 347 ; Finsch, Tog. 



d. Siidsee, p. 17 (New Britain) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 73 (1889) ; 



id. Ibis, 1889, p. 557 (St. Aignan Isl.) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. 



Tor. (2) xl. p. 157 (1889), xlii. p. 89 (1891). 

 Nasiterna pyginrea salomonensis, Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. 



p. 1 (1871). 

 Nasiterna pusilla, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 104 ( 1*77), 



iii. p. 251 (1879), iv. p. 96 (1879) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1879, p. 320; id. 



Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 128 (1880) ; Rchnw. Joum. f. Orn. 1881, 



p. 142 (Consp. Psitt. p. 78) ; Sharpe, Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. 



p. 425 (1882) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1882, p. 473 ; Salvad. Ann. Mux. 



Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 418, n. 2 (1882); id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. 



p. 514 (1882) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 27 (1883) ; Salvad. 



Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xl. p. 157 (1889). 



Adult male. Green, paler underneath, and yellowish along the 

 middle of the breast and of the abdomen ; forehead, sides of the 

 head, and chin ochre-yellow, crown dull blue; under tail-coverts 

 yellow, the outer ones tinged with green: upper wing-coverts 

 black, broadly edged with green ; quills dusky, primaries edged 

 with green on the outer webs ; under wing-coverts yellowish ; two 

 central tail-feathers blue with a black subapical spot, the remainder 

 black, edged with green on the outer webs, and with a yellow spot 

 at the tip of the inner web : bill and feet dusky. Total length 

 3*3 inches, wing 2-45 to 2-6, tail 1, bill 0-31, tarsus 0-28. 



Female. Like the male, but forehead and cheeks paler. 



Hab. Duke of York Islands, New Britain, St. Aignan's Isl., and 

 S.E. New Guinea. 



