396 psittacid^:. 



Adult male. Very much like the males of E. pectoralis and 

 E. roratus, but smaller, of a purer and darker green, with very little 

 blue on the tail, where this colour is confined towards the tip of the 

 lateral tail-feathers and to the external web of the outer one ; the 

 yellowish band at the tip of the tail is narrower : upper mandible 

 red with the tip yellowish, under mandible black ; feet blackish. 

 Total length 15-7 to 15*1 inches, wing 9*1 to 8*1, tail 5-15 to 4-75, 

 bill 1-63, tarsus 0*85. 



Female. Very much like the female of E. roratus, having the 

 nape-collar, the breast, and the abdomen purple ; but it differs in 

 being smaller, of a duller red ou the back and wings, and in having 

 the under tail-coverts not yellow, but red, only the louger ones 

 being more or less yellow ; the tail wants the well-defined yellow 

 band at the tip, which is of a bright red tinged with yellow ; the 

 blue primary-coverts have a very narrow green outer edge : iris 

 yellowish ; bill and feet black. Total length 15 to 14 inches, 

 wing 9-7 to 9-25, tail 4-9 to 4-44, bill 1-5 to 1-4, tarsus 0-84. 



Hub. The Moluccas, where it is confined to the Amboyna group 

 — Amboyna, Ceram, Bouru. 



a. Ad. sk. Bourn. Wallace Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Bouru (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



c. d. c? ad. sk. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 

 e. J ad. sk. Ceram {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. E. Ceram (A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. N. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



h, i. cS ? ad. sk. Amboyna, May, June. H. O. Forbes [C.]. 



k. Skeleton. Amboyna. Purchased. 



4. Eclectus riedeli. 



Eclectus riedeli, Meyer, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 917; id. Verh. zool.-bot. 

 Oesellsch. Wien, 1881, p. 772; Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xviii. 

 p. 419, n. 8 (1882) ; id. Orn. Pap e Mol. iii. p. 517 (1882); Meyer, 

 Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Zool. xxxvii. p. 156 aud following (1882) ; 

 Rchnw. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 69 (1883) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 188:3, pp. 51, 

 53, 58, 194* 196, 200, pi. xxvi. ; Mimchenbr. in Bernst. Daoboek, 

 pp. 256, 258 (1883) ; Sharpe, Gould's Birds New Guin. pt. xvi. pi. 1* 

 (1884); Meyer, Sitzb. u. Ahh. Gesellsch. Isis, 1884, Abh. i. p. 16; 

 Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 431, n. 11 ; Meyer, Zeitschr. f. yes. Orn. i. 

 pp. 194, 196 (1884); Forbes, Natural. Wander, p. 357 (1885); 

 B'dttik. Not. Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 61 (1886) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. d. 

 naturh. Hofmus. 1888, p. 39 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, 

 xl. p. 165 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 76 (1889). 



Adult male. Very much like the males of the allied species, 

 especially of E. cardinalis, having a pure grass-green colour, with 

 the head and neck brighter, but has the tail with a broad bright 

 yellow band at the tip ; under tail-coverts slightly yellowish : " iris 

 pale orange ; upper mandible scarlet, fading into orange towards the 



* Of the two birds figured the one supposed to be an adult female is a young 

 one. 



