36. POLYTELIS. 



477 



Adult female. Green, pileuin a little darker ; sides of the head 

 reddish : ear-coverts posteriorly washed with bluish ; broad man- 

 dibular stripes dark green ; quills blue, washed with green towards 

 the tip ; tail as in the male, only shorter ; bill horny brown. 



Young male, llesembles the female, only smaller ; the uropygium 

 washed with blue, and the upper mandible red. 



Hab. Pinang, Malacca Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra, Nias, 

 Billiton, Borneo, and Labuan. 



Pinang (Dr. Cantor). 

 Selangore,Nov.( W. Davison). 

 Klang, Selangore, May, Oct. 



( W. Davison). 

 Malacca. 

 Malacca. 



Malacca, Jan., Aug. 

 Malacca (Dr. Cantor). 



Johore, Aug. ( W. Davison). 

 Singapore Island, May, Nov. 



( //". Davison). 

 Sumatra (A. M. Wallace). 

 Sumatra (A. R. Wallace). 

 Sumatra. 



Kaban, Sumatra (H. O. 



Forbes). 

 R. Rawas, Sumatra (H. O. 



Forbes). 

 Billiton. 



Sarawak,Sept.(^..ff..E(W< > r7). 

 Sarawak (A. H. Everett). 

 Labuan (H. Low) 

 Labuan (II. Low). 



India Museum [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Kajah Brooke [P.J. 

 Cuming- Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 India Museum [P.]. 



India Museum [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sbarpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



:JG. POLYTELIS. 



Type. 



Polytelis, Wagl. Mm. Psitt. p. 489 (1832) P. barrabandi. 



Barrabandius, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 2 (18-50) P. barrabandi. 



Polyteles, Gould, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 232. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No red patch towards the tip of the innermost 



greater wing-coverts and innermost secondaries. 



a'. ( leneral colour green; male with the sinciput 



and throat yellow ; female with the forehead 



and cheeks tinged with bluish, and the inner 



webs of the lateral tail-feathers margined 



with rosy red barrabandi, \>. 478. 



b'. General colour greeu ; forehead and rump 



bluish : lower part <>f the cheeks and throat 



pale rose-colour : inner web of the lateral tail- 

 feathers margined with rosy red ( $ ?) alexandrte, p. -470. 



