498 



PSITTACIDJE. 



(1881) ; Bchnw. Vogelbild. t. xvi. f. 5 (1876-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 



1881, p. 132 {Comp. Psitt. p. 68). 

 Pyrrlmlopsis personata, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 141, 185, 1864, p. 158 ; 

 G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 139, n. 8015 (1870) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 683, 1875, p. 62, 1876, p. 308 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 169 ; 

 Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 335 (1883) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. 13. 

 p. 78 (1889). 



Adult. Green ; face black ; middle of the breast yellow, middle of 

 the abdomen orange ; primaries and their coverts blue ; tail green, 

 with a bluish tinge ttnvards the tip ; quills and tail-feathers under- 

 neath black : " bill black ; feet dusky ; irides orange-yellow "(Peale). 

 Total length about IS inches, wing 9-5, tail S - 5, bill 1'25, tarsus 

 0-87. 



Female. Like the male, only smaller. 



Young. Exactly like the adult birds in colouring : " irides dark 

 brown ; bill horny, with yellow edges ; feet black " (Layard). 



Hah. Fiji Islands. 



a. Ad. st. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. f. d'ad. et juv. 

 'sk. 



y. Ad. sk. 



h, i. Ad. et mv. 



sk. J 



k. 2 ad. sk. 



Fiji Islands. 

 Fiji Islands. 

 Viti Levu, Fiji, Sept. (F. M. 



Pai/ncr). 

 Kmdavu, August (F. L. 



La yu r d). 

 Rewa, July, Sept. {E. L. 



Laj/ard). 

 Siva, Fiji, October. 



M'bau, Fiji, August. 



Levuka. 



Zool. Soc. Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Vovage of HALS. 



''Herald.' 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



II.M.S. 



Yoya<re of 



' Alert.' 

 J. Brenchlev, 



DP-]- . 



Challenger Exped 



Esq. 



40. PSITTACELLA. 



Type. 

 Psittacella, Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 35 (1871). P. brehmi. 



Range. Confined to Xew Guinea. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts with crescent- 



like black bands brehmi, p. 498. 



b. Oulv the rump with crescent-like blackish bands. 



a'. Hind neck olive-brown, like the breast modesta, p. 499. 



b'. Hind neck olive-brown, with the middle of the 



feathers ochreous-yellow ; breast green, with 



no brown tin°;e . . . madaraszi, p. 500. 



1 . Psittacella brehmi. 



Psittacus brehmii, Posenb. in litt. ; Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk-. iv. 



p. 35 (1871) ; Posenb. Feist, naar Geelvinkb. pp. 102, 114 (1875). 

 Psittacella brehmii, Schleff. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 35 ($) 



(1871) ; Sharpe, Zool. Pec. viii. p.' 52 (1873) ; Meyer, Journ. f. 



Om. 1874, p. 74; id. Sitzb. k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxix. p. 74 



