38. APKOSMICTUS. 485 



Female. Total length 12'5 inches, wing 7-1, tail 6-3, bill OS, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Hal). Wetter Island, on the east of Timor. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Wetter (Soedt). Tweeddale Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



38. APROSMICTUS. 



Type. 

 Aprosmictus, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. Ill A. cyanopygius. 



Range. Australia and the Austro-iilalayan Suhregion. 



Key to the Species. 



Upper tail-coverts not yellowish green. 

 </. Wings green. 



«'. Upper tail-coverts more or less olive-green ; 

 the light band on tbe upper wing-coverts of 

 the male verdigris-green; red-colour scarlet, cyanopygius, p. 48G. 

 b'. Upper tail-coverts blue like the rump ; red- 

 colour carmine. 

 a". A yellow-green patch on the upper wing- 

 coverts of the males. 

 a'". Head red, nape from the occiput blue ; 

 interscapular region black (male) ; 

 female with no light patch on the 

 wing-coverts ; head, ueck, and breast 

 green like the back; feathers of the 

 throat and breast edged with dull 



carmine-red cMoropteruB, p. 488. 



b'". Head and neck red; no blue colour on 

 the nape; interscapular region blue, 

 scapulars black (male) ; female re- 

 sembling that of A. chloropterus .... caSopterus, p. 489. 

 b". Wings, both in males and females, with 

 no light band or patch on the wing- 

 coverts. 

 c'". Two outer tail-feathers broadly edged 

 with rosy red on the inner web ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts blue in 

 the adult birds, green, with more or 

 less blue, in the young birds. 

 O*. liill black, with the base of the upper 



mandible red ambomensu, p. 4. v 9. 



b x . Bill entirely black, or only tipped 



with light horn-colour bwruensis, p. 4 



d'". Tail-feathers with the inner webs en- 

 tirely black in the adult birds, tipped 

 with rosy red in young birds. 

 c l . liill black, with the base of the upper 

 mandible red; back blue in the 

 adult bird, green in the young .... dorsalis, p. 491. 

 d l . 15)11 all reddish also in the adult bird ; 

 back in the adult birds (?) irreen, 

 more or less tinged with blue on the 



edges of the feathers sit'otruu, p. 192. 



5, Wings like the back and tail, deep blue ltypopkonius, p. 492. 



