30. ECLECTUS. 397 



tip, lower mandible black ; legs and feet bluish black " (Forbes). 

 Total length 13-8 inches, wing 9-8, tail 4-9, bill P5 to 1'35, tarsus 

 0-8. 



Adult female. Red ; back, uropygium, upper tail-coverts, and wings 

 darker and duller red ; under tail-coverts pure yellow ; primaries, 

 their wing-coverts, and edge of the wing deep blue ; the secondaries 

 are red on the outer web, blue at the tip and on the inner web ; 

 the innermost secondaries are entirely red ; tail red above, golden 

 yellow-red underneath, and with a broad well-defined yellow band 

 at the tip: "iris pale yellow; bill black; feet and legs greyish 

 black " (H. 0. Forbes). Total length 13 inches, wing 8-7, tail 4-9, 

 bill 1-35, tarsus 0-8. 



Young male. Resembles the female, but has the back and wings 

 olive-green, with a red tinge towards the edges of the feathers : 

 " iris grey ; upper mandible orange, with the culmen greyish black, 

 tip corneous ; lower mandible black ; legs and feet dirty grey " (H. 

 0. Forbes) *. 



Hub. Tcnimber Islands. 



a. cJad.sk. Lurat Is., Timor Laut, Aug. Tweeddale Coll. 



(H. O. Forbes). 



b. J imm. sk. Larat Is., Timor Laut, Aug. H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



[_L.J. 



c. d. <$ ad. et Loetoe, Timor Laut, Aug. H. O. Forbes, Esq. 

 5 imm. sk. [C.]. 



5. Eclectus westermanni. 



? Eastern Parrot, Lath. Syn. Suppl, i. p. 64 (1787) ; id. Gen. Hint. ii. 



p. 251 (1822). 

 ? Psittacus orientalis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 125 (1790) ; Bechst. 



Kurze Uebers. p. 101 (1811) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 375 (1817) ; 



Euhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 99 (1820) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1406 (1823); 



ll'ur/l. Mm. Psitt. p. 745 (1832). 

 ? Eos orientalis, G. It. Gr. Gen. B. A pp. p. 20 (1849). 

 Psittacodis westermani, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 4 (1850)(type examined); 



id. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 26 (note) ; id. Compt. Rend. xxx". p. 136 (1850); 



id. Rev. et Mar/, de Zoo!. 1854, p. 155, n. 234; id. Naumannia, 



1856, Consp. Psitt. u. 241 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, 



p. 218; Rosenb. Juurn.f. Orn. 1862, p. 66; id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. 



Lnd. xxv. p. 146 (1863). 

 Polychlorus westermanni, Sctat. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 226, pi. 127. 

 Eclectus westermanni, G.R. Gr. List Psitt, Brit. Mas. p. 66 (1859) ; 



id. I'. Z. S. 1860, ].. 358 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1864. p. 287 ; Schleg. 



Mas. P.-B. Patted, p. 42 (1864); Finsc/i, Papag. ii. p. 339 



(1868); Meyer, Zool. Gart. 1874, p. 161; Schley.' Mas. P.-B. 



Psittaci, Revue, p. 16 (1874); Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 77 (1876) j 



Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. x. p. 31, n. 52 (1877) ; Forbes, Ibis, 



1877, p. 283; Salvad. Ibis, 1877, p. 475; Rosenb. Zool. Gart. 



1878, p. 345 ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 213 (1880) ; Meyer, 



* The specimen which I have described as a young male is. I have no doubt, 

 wrongly labelled J ; the orange colour of the upper mandible makes me believe 

 that it is a male. 



