406 



PSITTACIDjE. 



(1877) (Bouru, Boano, Ceram, Amboyna, Harouko, Goram, 



Monawolka). 

 Pdiodocephalus geoffroyi (part.), Rchnio. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p 



{Consp. Psitt. p. 137) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 65 (1883). 

 Psittacula geoffroy, Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. d. naturh. Hofmus. iii. p. 40 



249 



Similar to the other species already described, but it is distinguished 

 by the darker green colour, and by the deep blue colour of the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ; the male has the red colour of the face 

 generally brighter than in the other species and descending lower 

 down on the throat ; the female is easily distinguished from the 

 females of the allied species by the very dark brown-chestnut colour 

 of the head. The male has the upper mandible red, the lower 

 whitish ; both mandibles are dusky in the female. Total length 11 lo 

 11-6 inches, wing 7.to 7-3, tail 3-3 to 3-55, bill 0-9S to 1-8, tarsus 0-72. 



Younrj. Upper part of the head green like the back ; sides of the 

 head greyish green ; no brown spot on the wing- coverts. 



Hab. Confined to the Southern Moluccas, or to the Amboyna 

 Group, from Bouru to Boano, Ceram, Amboyna, Harouko, Goram, 

 and Monawolka. 



a, b. Ad. st. 



c. Ad. st. 



d. Iinm. st. 



e. $ ad. sk. 

 /. Ad.sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



Moluccas. 



Moluccas. 



[Gilolo.] 



N. Ceram {A. R. Wallace). 



Amboyna {Gov. Riedel). 



Amboyna. 



h. $ imm. sk. Amboyna. 



i. £ ad. ; 7e. 3 

 imm. ; /. 5 

 ad. sk. 



tn, n. 3 $ ad. sk. 



o,p. 5 ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 

 r, s. Imm. sk. 



Amboyna, May, June. 



Bouru. 



Cajeli, Bouru, Nov. 



[ Waigiou.] * 

 [Mysol.] * 



t. Ad. sk. [Mysol] (A. R. Wallace), 



u, v. 3 5 ad. sk. [Batjan.] 



Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



Baron Laugier Coll. 



Purchased. 



Gould Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Wallace Coll. 



' Challenger ' Expe- 

 dition. 



II. 0. Forbes, Esq. 

 [0.] 



Wallace Coll. 



II. O. Forbes, Esq. 



[0.1 

 Wallace Coll. I 

 Wallace Coll. f _ 



(Types of species.) 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



6. Geoffroyns floresianus. 



Geoffroyus jukesii (part.), Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484 (Flores). 

 Geoff royus personatus (part), Wall. P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 283, 293 



(Flores) ; Prist r. {nee Shaw) Cat. Coll. B.y. 79 (1889). 

 Eclectus personatus (part.), Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 42 



(specimen no. 5 excepted) (Flores) (1864) ; id. Ned. Tijdschr. 



Dierk. iii. p. 332 (partim) (1866) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, 



p. 18 (1874) (Flores). 

 Psittacus suckesii (errore), Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Rtierk. hi. p. 333 



(part.) (1866) (Flores). 

 Pionias personatus (part.), Finsch, Papa//, ii. p. 375 (1868). 



* I have shown iu my ' Ornitologia della Papuasia ' . that the types of G. 

 rhodqps have been wrongly labelled by Mr. Gray as from Waigiou and Mysol. 



