408 



TSITTACID^;. 



Zool. 1856, p. 218 (type examined) ; Sclat. Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. 



ii. p. 105, n. 116 (1858); id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 227; Rosenb. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 64 ; id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. hid. xxv. 



pp. 144, 226, sp. 27 (1863); id. Jotirn. f. Orn. 1864, p. 115, 



n. 27 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 283 ; Salrad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



vii. p. 757 (1875), x. p. 29, n. 40, p. 120 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e 



Mol.i. p. 183 (1880); Rchmo. Voqelbild. t. xi. f. 4 (1878-83); 



Nehrk. Journ. f. Orn. 1885, p. 31 ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 620 ; 



Buttik. Not. Lei/d. Mus. viii. p. 61 (1886) ; Salrad. Mem. R. Ac. 



Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl.p. 163 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 79 (1889). 

 Geoffroyus personatus, Sclat. {nee Shaw) Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. 



p. 165, n. 115 (1858) ; Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Jnd. xxv. 



p. 226, n. 26 (1863); id. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 115; Bemst. 



Dagboek,?. 154 (1883). 

 Psittacus pucheraui, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 195 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 159; id. Cat. B. Neic Guin. pp. 42, 60 (1859) ; id. List 



Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 72 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436; Bemst. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Jnd. xxvii. p. 297 (1864) ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. 



p. 156 (1865). 

 Psittacus personatus, G. R. Gr. {nee Shaw) P. Z. S. 1858, p. 135 ; id. 



Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 42, 60 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436. -_ 

 Psittacus rhodnps, Bemst. (nee Gray) Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Lid. xxvii. 



p. 297 (1864). 

 Eclectus rhodops, var., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 166 (1804) 



(Guebeh, Waigiou). 

 Eclectus personatus (part.), Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 333 



(B, petite forme /3) (1866), iv. p. 4 (1871) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, 



Rerue, p. 20 (partim, b) (1874) ; Rosenb. Zoolog. Gart. 1878, p. 345 



(partial). 

 Tionias pucherani, Finsch, Papaq. ii. p. 385 (1868) ; Meyer, Sitzb. 



1: Ak. Wissemch. Wien, lxx. pp. 220, 223, 234 (1874) ; id. Sitzb, 



Lsis Lresd. 1875, p. 77. 

 Geoffroy pucherani, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 160, n. 8274 (1820). 

 lihodocephalus pucherani, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 250 (Consj). 



Psitt. p. 138). 



Adult male. Green, undcrparts paler ; forehead, sides of the head, 

 chin, and throat red ; vertex and hind part of the head lilac-blue ; 

 back green, slightly tinged with olive ; uropygium chestnut-red ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail yellowish green ; wings green, sometimes 

 with an obsolete brown spot on the smaller wing-coverts ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts deep blue : " iris pale yellow ; upper 

 mandible red, under mandible dusky; feet dark lead-colour" 

 (UAlbertis). Total length 9*8 to 10-5 inches, wing 6-5 to 0-9, tail 

 2-8 to 3-05, bill 0-88 to 0-95, tarsus 0-65. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the head dark chestnut ; 

 the sides of the head and chin greenish, the bill dusky. 



Young. Head above green like the back ; cheeks dusky greenish ; 

 bill dusky, sometimes yellowish. 



Hob. North-western New Guinea ; "Western Papuan Islands — 

 Waigiou, Guebeh, Batanta, Salawatty, Mysol, Koffiao ; and Miosnom 

 in Geelvink Bay. 



a, b. <3 ad. sk. Dorey. Wallace Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Andai. Edinburgh Mus. [E.]. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Amberpon, Geelvink Bay, Jan. Purchased. 



