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Rosenb. Heist, naar Geelvirikb. p. 6 (1875) ; Meyer, Sitzb. Isis zu 

 Dresd. 1875, p. 77 ; liosenb. Zool. Gart. 1878, p. 345. 

 Tanygnathus megalorhynchus, var. sumbensis, Meyer, Verh. z.-b. 

 Ges. Wien, xxxi. p. 762 (Suniba) (1881)*; EcAnw. u. Schal. Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1883, p. 417. 



Adult. Green, underneath yellowish green ; sides yellow ; feathers 

 of the interscapular region green edged with light blue ; lower back 

 and uropygium light blue ; scapulars black edged with blue ; quills 

 and greater upper wing-coverts blue edged with green ; smaller and 

 median upper wing- coverts black, the last edged with bright yellow; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; tail above green, with 

 yellow tip, underneath golden yellow, duller towards the base : 

 " iris yellowish, with an outer ring white; bill coral-red; feet lead- 

 colour " (D'Albertis). Total length 17 to 18 inches, wing 9-4 to 

 10, tail 5-0 to 6-3, bill 1-78 to 2, tarsus 0-85. 



Female. Has the bill smaller than the male. 



Young. Has the scapulars and the upper wing- coverts not so black 

 and more greenish, and the yellow edges of the same paler. 



Hah. Western coast of Northern New Guinea, the Western Papuan 

 Islands — Mysol, Salawatty, Batanta, Waigiou, and Guebeh — the 

 Northern Moluccas or the Halmahera group, and the Sanghir and 

 Talaut Islands ; according to Meyer also the Togian Islands. 



a. $ ad. sk. Batanta, June. 



b. Ad. sk. Salawatty (Brnijn). 



c. Ad. sk. Mysol (A. R. Wallace). 



d. Ad. sk. Halmahera. 



e. S ad. sk. Ternate (bought alive at). 

 /. Ad. sk. Kaisa Island. 

 g. <$ ad. sk. Makian (A. R. Wallace), 

 h. Ad. sk. Batchian. 

 ?'. Ad. sk. Batchian. 

 h. Ad. sk. Sanghir Islands. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Purchased. 



' Challenger' Exped. 



Wallace Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Wallace Coll. 



Purchased. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



4. Tanygnathus affinis. 



Tanygnathus megalorhynchus (part.), Sclat. P. Z. S. 1800, p. 220 



(specim. ex Ceram) ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 157 (part.) (1803). 

 Tanygnathus macrorhynchos, Rosmb. (nee Gm.) Journ. f. Orn. 1862, 



p. 61 (ex Bouru, Ambovna, and Ceram) ; id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. 



Ind. xxv. pp. 140, 141 (pavtim) (1803). 

 Tanygnathus affinis, Wall. P. Z. 8. 18(53, p. 20, 1864, pp. 280, 294; 



Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 157 (1805) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 158, 



n. 8250 (1870); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. viii. p. 309 (1870), 



x. p. 26, n. 16 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 132 (1880) ; 



Rehnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 245 (t'onsj). Psitt. p. 133) ; Bias. u. 



Nehrk. Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 1882, p. 114; Rchnw. Vvr/elbild. 



Nachtr.63 (1883) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 158 



(1889). 



* Having examined two typical specimens of the Sumba bird, kindly sent 

 me for inspection by Dr. Meyer, I have not been able to find any difference 

 from T. megalorhynchus, and I greatly doubt whether the asserted locality 

 Sumba, given on the authorily of Dr. Riedel, is correct. 



