39. rYRRiiuLorsis. 403 



coverts brighter ; quills and tail underneath black : bill black, with 

 the base of the upper mandible red ; feet blackish. Total length 

 15-3 inches, wing 7"<5, tail 7'5, bill 0*86, tarsus 07. 



Adult female. Perhaps like the male, only smaller. 



Young. Feathers of the sides and of the interscapular region 

 edged with olive-green; tail-feathers tipped with red ; bill red. 



Hah. Halmahera. 



a-d. Ad. et imm. sk. Halmahera. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Imm. sk. Halmahera. Tweeddale Coll. 



39. PYRRHULOPSIS *. 



Type. 

 Pyrrhulopsis, Rehnb. Av. Si/sf. Nat. tab. lxxxii. (1860). P. p srsonata. 



Prosopeia, Bp. Pev. et May de Zool. 1854, p. 153 P. personata. 



Prosopsea, Bp. Naumannia, l8")(i. Camp, Psitt. gen. 37. 



Range. Fiji Islands, and also Tonga Islands, where at least one 

 species has been introduced. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head, neck, and underparts red. 



a'. Head, neck, and underparts bright carmine- 

 red ; a broad blue collar on the nape splcndens, p. 403. 



V . Head, neck, and underparts dark cherry-red. 



a". A broad blue collar on the nape tabuensis, p. 494. 



b". A narrow blue collar on the nape, scarcely 

 perceptible ; rump-feathers (constantly ?) 



edged with dark cherry-red horoensis, p. 496. 



c". No blue collar on the nape : size smaller . . taviuneneis, p. 407. 



b. Head and neck green, like the remaining upper 



parts ; face black ; middle of the breast yellow, 



of the abdomen orange perepnata, p. 4'.)?. 



1. Pyrrhulopsis splendens. 



PTabuan Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 116 (9 ex Ins. Feeieel 

 (1822). J ' 



Hartl. Ibis, 1304, p. 2:5:?; Srlat. P. Z. ,S'.']SOO. p. 203 : Fiasch „. 

 Hart!. Faun. Centr.-Polyn. pp 20, 27~>. t. ii. f. 2 i.— > |lsi;7) : 

 Finsrh, Papa p. ii. p. 237 (1808); Finsch u. H<uil. Journ. f. On,'. 

 L870, p. 121: Ghrqjfe, Journ. f. Qrn. 1870, pp. 402, 417, 11- ■ 

 F. L. Layard, P. /.. 8. 1876, pp.80, 425 (part.) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1876^ 



* In Pyrrhulopsis splendens the furcula is complete ,Garrod, 1*. Z. S. 1S78, 

 590) ; 1 have found it complete also in 1'. tabuensis. 



