386 



PSITTACID-E. 



(1878) ; D'Alb. Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 248 ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



x. pp. 8, 19 (1877) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 365; D'Alb. 8f Salvad.Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 36 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. 



p. 216 (1880) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zoology, xvi. p. 426 



(1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 518 (1882) ; Rchnw. 



Vogelbild. t. xviii. f. 2 (1878-83) ; Sharpe, Gould's B. New Guin. 



pt. xiv. pi. 1 (1883) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 621 ; Finsch u. 



Meyer, Zeitschr.f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 5 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. 



Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 38 (1889). 

 Nestor pecquetii, Schleg. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 377 ; id. Mus. P.-B. 



Psittaci, p. 157 (1864) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 70 



(1874). 

 Dasyptilus pescqueti, Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 157 (1865). 

 Micropflossum pecqueti, Rosenb. Zool. Gart. 1878, p. 347. 

 Dasvptilus pequetti, Mosel. Not. by a Natur. on the Chall. pp. 392, 



479(1879)*. _ 

 Nestor pesqueti, Rchmo. Journ. f. Orn. 1831, p. 22 (Consp. Psitt. 



p. 22). 



Adult. Black, the feathers of the hreast edged with brownish 

 grey ; abdomen, sides, upper and under tail-coverts, median upper 

 wing-coverts, the outer web of the secondaries, and under wing- 

 coverts red ; forehead, sides of the head, and throat nearly naked, 

 with few hair-like feathers ; black feathers of the pileum and of the 

 nape narrow, pointed ; a red band on each side of the occiput ; tail 

 black : bill and feet black ; iris maroon. Total length from 21 to 

 20 inches, wing 12, tail 7"5, bill 0-65, tarsus 1. 



Young. Besides being smaller, has the red colour less bright and 

 less extended on the wings. 



Hah. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. st. Purchased. 



b. S ad. sk. Arfak Mts., New Guinea. Gould Coll. 



c. 2 imm. sk. Has, N.W. New Guinea. Gould Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea {A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. (A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



Subfamily Y. PAL^EORNITHINLE. 



Bill moderate, or very strong, deeper than long (in Loriculus long 

 and thin) ; the horny covering of the bill smooth, mostly red, some- 

 times black ; culmen rounded, smooth or with a longitudinal groove ; 

 gonys flattened or rounded, smooth or with a feeble median ridge or 

 keel ; cere narrow, equally broad, surrounding the whole base of 

 the bill, generally partly feathered ; nostrils hidden or exposed ; tail 



* " I saw on the main island a scarlet and black Parrot or Cockatoo of some 

 kind, which flew out of some high trees on the sea shore, screaming loudly, like 

 a Cockatoo. The bird was wary, and I could not get a shot at it. It re- 

 minded me at the time of the rare Dasyptilus pequetti of New Guinea ; it was 

 of about that size." (Moselev, ' Notes bv a Naturalist on the Challenger,' 

 p. 479, 1879.) 



Hah. Admiralty Islands. 



