492 PSITTACID.E. 



f,g, h. Ad. et New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq 



iium. sk. [C] 



i. Ad. sk. New Guinea (A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



k. Juv. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



I. Juv. sk. Waigiou (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



7. Aprosmictus sulaensis. 



Platvcercus dorsalis, var., Wall. P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 335, 337 (partim, 



Sula Isl. only), 1804, pp. 282, 293 (partim). 

 Aprosmictus sulaensis, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 128 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 64), 1882, p. 118 ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 515 



(1882). 



" This bird agrees with my specimens from New Guinea, but the 

 bill in those is black, with a red spot at the base only, near the 

 nostrils ; in this variety the bill seems all reddish, except a pale 

 tip and dusky portion at the sides of the upper mandible" (Wal- 

 lace). Total length 14 inches, wing 7, tail 7"4, bill 0*82, tarsus 

 0-65. 



Young. Breast dull green, with the feathers broadly edged with 

 red ; interscapular region green, with no blue edges to the feathers. 



Hah. Sula Islands. 



Out of eight specimens contained in the British Museum, not one 

 has the interscapular region blue as in the adult A. dorsalis ; three 

 have the interscapular region entirely green, and these I take to be 

 young birds ; while the other five have some feathers of the inter- 

 scapular region edged with blue. I suspect that in the fully adult 

 birds the interscapular region never becomes entirely blue. 



a-h. Ad. (?) et imm. sk. Sula Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Aprosmictus hypophonius. 



Psittacus (Platvcercus) hypophonius, S. Mull. Verh. Land- en 

 Volkenk. p. 181 (1S39-44). 



Platvcercus hypophonicus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 408, n. 27 (1846). 



Aprosmictus hypophonicus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 153, 

 n. 166 ; id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 166. 



Platvcercus hypophonius, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 11 

 (1859); id. P. Z. S. 18C0, p. 356; Wall. P.Z.S. 1864, pp. 282, 

 293; Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 91 (1864); Finsch, Neu- 

 Guin. p. 156(1863); id. Papag. ii. p. 254 (1868); G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 139, n. 8313 ( 1870) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, 

 Revue, p. 38 (1874); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 217 (1876) ; Rchnw. 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 130 (Consp. Psitt. p. 66) ; id. Vogelbild. 

 Nachtr. 16 (1883). 



Aprosmictus hypophonius, Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 227 ; Rosenb. Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1862, p. 62 ; id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind, xxv. p. 142 

 (1863) ; Sakad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 755 (1875), x. p. 27, 

 n. 21 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 143 (1880) ; id. Mem. R. 

 Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 159 (1889). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and under surface crimson-red ; back, 

 upper tail-coverts, wings, and tail above deep blue, the cubital wing- 





