400 PSITTACID.E. 



Key to the Species *. 



a. Head of the males red, tiDged on the hind part 

 with lilac-hlue. 

 a'. Nape green like the back. 



a". Uropygium green, with no dark red 

 patch. 

 a'". Green colour paler, somewhat yel- 

 lowish. 

 a 4 . Under wing-coverts pale blue. 



«'. Largest : wing 7'7 to 7'9 inches ; 



head of the female brown-olive. . keyensis, p. 401. 

 b 5 . Median : wing 6-7 to 73 inches ; 

 head of the female distinctly 



greenish tmorlaoensis, p. 402. 



e 5 . Smaller : wing 56 to 5-8 inches ; 



head of the female a little darker 



than that of the above species . . personatus, p. 402. 



b l . Under wing-coverts brighter blue ; 



wing 6'2 to 68 inches ; head of the 



female brown, with no greenish 



tinge on the pileum aruensis, p. 404. 



b'". Green colour purer and darker, with 

 no yellowish tinge. 

 e 4 . Larger : wing 7 to 7"3 inches ; head 



of the female dark brown rhodqps, p. 40-";. 



<2 4 . Smaller: wing 6 inches ; (colour of 



the female's head unknown) Jloresianus, p. 406. 



e 4 . Median : wing Q-G to 6-4 inches .... sumbavensis, p. 407. 

 b" . Uropygium dark brown-red. 



c'". Interscapular feathers not distinctly 

 edged with brown-red. 

 / 4 . Pale brown spot on the smaller 

 wing-coverts wanting or very slight. 



* I am not acquainted with the following species recently described : — 



Geoffroyus sudestiexsis. 



Geoffroyus sudestiensis, Be Fis, Ann. Report on Brit. New Guin. p. 58 

 (1890) ; id. Colonial Papers, No. 103, p. 105 (1890) ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 28. 



Male. Above bright green, beneath paler ; front, cheeks, chin, throat, and 

 ear-coverts cinnabar-red, the last tipped with blue. Head and fore neck pale 

 lilac-tinted blue, on the vertex strongly tinged in certain lights with yellow. 

 Quills fuscous, first primary narrowly edged with dark blue ; rest of quills with 

 their outer webs entirely, and inner webs to an increasing extent, green. 

 No shoulder-spot. Axillaries and under wing-coverts bright blue, under sur- 

 face of wing fuscous ; upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers above yellowish 

 green, inner webs and under surface of tail greenish yellow. Rump green. 

 Maxilla red, with the tip pale, mandible bluish fuscous. Feet fuscous. Total 

 length 210 millim., wing 175, tail 100, bill 24, tarsus 15." {Be Vis.) 



Hah. Sudest Island, Louisiade Isl. 



Obs. "A species distinguished from the two red-throated species (?) by a 

 strong wash of yellow on the head, visible only in certain lights, and by the 

 absence of the cubital spot." (Dc Vis.) 



