41. PSITTACELLA. 499 



(1874); ScHeg. Mus. P.-B. P.-ittaci, Revue,?. 42 (1874); Rosenb. 

 Heist, naar Geelvinkb. p. 136 (1876); Meyer, Sitzb. Isis zu 

 Dread. lf-<7-"), p. 77; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. \ii. p. ~~>~> 

 (1875); Gould, Birds New Gum. pt. iv. pi. 4 (1877); Salvad. 

 Ann. Mxis. Civ. Gen. x. p. 27, n. 22 (1877) ; Rosenb. Malay. 

 Arc/iip. pp. 559, :>!>_' (1S7S-79) ; .Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 1 15 

 (18S0) ; Rehnu: Jmini. f. Orn. 1881, p. 135 {Consp. Fstit. p. 71 ) ; 

 id. VogeUnld. t. xxiii. f. 2 (1878-83) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 619; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 159 (1889). 



Euphema brelmri, Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 325 (1876). 



Psittacula (sic) brehmii, Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1877, p. 55. 



Psittacella pallida, Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 3; Sharpe, 

 Nature, vol. 34, p. 340 (1866) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. 

 (2) xl. p. 159 (1889). 



Adult male. Green; head and throat brown-olive, back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts with numerous black cresceirt-like bars ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts washed with j ellow ; on each side of 

 the neck a crescent-like band, bright yellow ; breast and abdomen 

 green; under tail-coverts red ; wings green, with the metacarpal 

 edge blue ; quills towards the tip brown, with a narrow yellowish 

 edge on the outer web, underneath brown ; tail above green, the 

 tips of the feathers with narrow yellow edges, tail underneath 

 brown or dull olive : bill lead-grey, with the tip whitish ; feet 

 brown. Total length 10 - 2 inches, wing 4 - S, tail 3-5, bill 0-8, 

 tarsus OG0. 



Female. Similar to the male, but smaller, and with no yellow 

 crescent-like bands on the sides of the neck ; breast yellow, with 

 numerous crescent-like black bands. 



JIab. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



I have compared females from S.E. New Guinea, which have 

 been described by Dr. A. B. Meyer as belonging to a distinct species, 

 with others from the Arfak Mountains, and I have not been able 

 to detect any difference. 



a. 3 ad- sk. Arfak Mts., New Guinea. Tweeddale Coll. 



b, c. d 2 ad. ak. Arfak Mts., Febr. Purchased. 



d. S2 ad. sk. New Guinea. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



e. $ ad. .--k. New Guinea. Purchased. 



/. ? :- ad. sk. Meroka (5000 feet), S.E. New II. O. Forbes, Esq. [C.j. 



Guinea. 

 y. 2 ? ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Psittacella modesta. 



Psittacus modestus, Rosenb. in lift.; ScHeg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. 



iv. p. 86 (1871); Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 102, 114 



(1875). 

 Psittacella modesta, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 36 (3) 



(1871) ; Sharpe, Zool. Record, \iii. p. 52 (l v 7-'i) ; Meyer, Joiirn.f. 



Orn. 1874, p. 7"> : id. Sitzb. /•■. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxix. p. 74 



(1874); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 42 (1874); Rosenb. 



Reist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 136(1875); Meyer, -sitzb. Isis Dreed. 



L875, p. 77 ; .Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. <ieu. X. p. 27, D. 23 (1^77) ; 



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