30. ECLECTOS. 389 



Key to the Species. 



a. Green : males. 



a '. Sides of the body red. 



a". Larger : total length from 180 to 163 

 inches. 

 a'". Green colour purer ; tail generally less 



blue pectoralis, p. 389. 



b'". Green colour with a yellowish tinge ; 

 lateral tail-feathers generally much more 



blue roratus, p. 393. 



b". Smaller: total length 15-7 to 13'8 inches; 

 green colour quite pure ; lateral tail- 

 feathers with very little blue colour, which 

 is nearly confined to the external web of 

 the outer tail-feathers. 



c'". Tip of the tail slightly yellowish cardinalis, p. 394. 



d'". Tail with a well-defined bright yellow 



band at the tip riedeli, p. 398. 



b'. Sides of the body green, with no red patches . wester manni, p. 397. 

 b. Red : females. 



c'. A band across the nape, covering also the 

 upper back, lower breast, and abdomen, blue 

 or purple. 

 c'\ A blue ring round the eyes ; band on the 



upper back and abdomen bright blue .... pectoralis, p. 389. 

 d". No blue ring round the eyes ; baud on the 

 upper back and abdomen purple. 

 e'". Under tail-coverts red, the longest more 



or less tinged witli yellow cardinalis, p. 394. 



f". Under tail-coverts bright yellow roratus, p. 393. 



d' . No blue or purple band on the nape and upper 

 back ; abdomen red, with no blue or purple 

 colour. 

 e". Smaller : under tail-coverts and a broad 



band at the tip of the tail-feathers yellow, riedeli, p. 390. 

 f". Larger: under tail-coverts red: no yellow 



band at the tip of the tail-feathers Cornelia, p. 398. 



1. Eclectus pectoralis. 



Green and red Parrot from China, Edw. Glean, v. pi. 231 (1758) ; 



Seligm, Ausl. Vbg. vii. pi. 14 (1770). 

 Psittacus sinensis, JJriss.Om. iv. p. 291 (1700) (ex Sinaet Amboina!) ; 



Gm. S. N. i. p. 337, n. 109 (1788) ; Lath. hid. Orn. i. p. 117 



(1790); Bechst. Furze Ueoers. p. 94 (1811); Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. 



p. 84 (1820); Vitill. Enc. Mith. p. L369 (1823) ; Less, Fay. Cog., 



Zool. i. p. 842 (1826), ii. p. 627 (1828) ; Voigt, Ouv. Uebers. p. 743 



(1831); Temm. Toll. Mith. p. 69 (1839). 

 Perroquet de la Chine, U Aubvnt. I'l. Enl. 514. 

 Grand Perroquet verd de la Nouvelle Guine'e, Sonner. J'oy. a la 



Nouv. Quia. p. 174, pi. 108 (1776). 

 Psittacus pectoralis, P. L. S. Midi. S. X. Suppl. p. 78. n. 58 (1770) ; 



Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 240. 

 Psittacus aurantius, P. L. 8. Mull op. at. p. 80, n. 64 ; Cass. I. c. 

 Perroquet vert, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. llti (1779). 



