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collar round the neck grey, with a slight tinge of bluish ; a palo 

 brown spot on the smaller wing-coverts ; quills with a narrow 

 yellow edge on the inner web ; innermost secondaries near the 

 scapulars with a yellowish-white spot on the inner web ; primary- 

 coverts green, edged with blue ; under wing-coverts blue ; tail 

 green above, golden olive underneath, the tip and the inner web of 

 the tail-feathers narrowly edged with yellow : " iris pale yellow ; 

 upper mandible yellow, under mandible black ; feet grey " ( Wood- 

 ford). Total length 10-5 inches, wing 6-4, tail 3-3, bill 0-85, 

 tarsus 6. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the head greenish, with 

 a bluish-grey tinge above ; there is no yellow colour on the head, 

 and no bluish-grey collar round the neck : " bill black ; legs grey ; 

 iris pale yellow " ( Woodford). Of nearly the same size as the 

 male. 



Young (type of G. agrestis). The upper part of the head is green 

 like the back : cheeks also greenish ; body, wings, and tail as in 

 the adult bird : " iris drab ; feet greenish drab ; bill brownish 

 orange " (Richards). (Mas. Tristram.) 



Hah. Solomon Islands — St. George, Isabel, Lava, Guadalcanar, 

 San Cristoval ; New Britain and New Ireland. 



a,b. d 2 ad. sk. San Cristoval. T. C. Cockered [C.]. 



c. ($ ad. sk. Guadalcanar, July. C. M. Woodford, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d, e. I mm. sk. Solomon Islands. P. L. Sclater, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. New Britain {Rev. G. Brown). Tweeddale Coll. 



y, h. Irani, sk. New Britain. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



I. Ad. sk. New Ireland. Rev. G. Brown |_C.J. 



15. Geoffroyus simplex. 



Pio'niaa simplex, Meyer, J'crh. k. z.-b. Gesellseh. ll'ien, lxx. p. 39 



(1874) (type examined) ; id. Sitzb.k. Ak. Wissemch. Wien, lxix. 



p. 74 (1874) ; Sclat Ibis, 1874, p. 419 ; Meyer, Sitzb. Isis Dresd. 



1875, p. 77. 

 Geoffrovus simplex, Saload. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 759 (1875), 



x. p. 30, n. 48 (1*77), p. 120, n. 15 (1877); Gould, B. New Guin. 



pt. v. pi. 7 (1877) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 190 (1880) ; 



Echnw. J'oyelbild. t. xxvii. f. 1 (4878-83) ; Salvad. Mem. B. Ac. Sc. 



Tor. set. 2, xl. p. 105 (1889). 

 Rhodocephalus simplex, Rchntv. Joum. f. Oni. 1881, p. 247 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. L35). 



Adult male (type). Green; back brownish; rump washed with 

 blackish ; under surface of body lighter green ; round the neck a 

 collar of light blue, somewhat shaded with lilac under certain lights, 

 and broader and less defined on the nape ; wings green ; the inner 

 webs of the quills black ; under wing-coverts sky-blue, this colour 

 descending somewhat on the sides of the chest ; under surface of 

 the quills blackish, the innermost secondaries nearer to the scapu- 

 lars with a pale yellow spot on the inner web ; on the edge of the 



