500 PSITTACID.E. 



Bosenb. Malay. Archip. pp. 559, 502 (1878-79) ; Salvad. Orn. Tap. 

 e Mol. i. p. 147 (1880) : Rchnw. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 135 (Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 71) ; id. Voyclbild. in the text of pi. xxxiii. (1878-83) ; 

 Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 160 (1889). 

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



Adult male. Green ; head brown-olive, crown darker : hind neck 

 olive ; rump green, slightly tinged with yellowish and crossed by 

 blackish bars, not very conspicuous ; breast olive-brown ; ibdomen 

 yellowish green ; under tail-coverts red ; quills brown, green on 

 their outer webs, and narrowly edged with yellowish towards the 

 tip ; inner web of the quills underneath tinged dull yellowish ; 

 under wing-coverts olive, edge of the wing blue ; tail above green, 

 below brown : irides lemon-yellow ; bill greyish blue ; feet brown. 

 Total length 6*3 inches, wing 3*4, tail 2-4, bill 0-55, tarsus - 55. 



Female. Like the male, but the breast has dull red and blackish 

 crescent-like bands ; on the lower part of the breast and on the 

 sides the bands are yellow and dark green. 



Hob. Arfak Mountains, N.W. of New Guinea. 



«; °- 6 ? ad. sk. Arfak Mts. (Bruijn). Purchased. 



3. Psittacella madaraszi. 



Psittacella madaraszi, Meyer, Zeitschr. f. yes. Orn. 1886, p. 4, t. i. 

 f. 1 ; Sharpe, Nature, vol. 34, p. 340 (1886) ; id. Gould's B. New 

 Gum. pt. xxii. pi. 3 (1886) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, 

 xl. p. 160 (1889). 



Adult male. Very much like that of P. modesta, but the head with 

 an ochreous tinge, the feathers of the hind neck distinctly ochreous- 

 yellow in the middle ; the rump more yellowish, and with broader 

 black bands ; the breast dull green, with no brown tinge ; dimen- 

 sions very little less than those of P. modesta. 



A supposed fern ale of this species has been described by Dr. Meyer 

 as having the head green, the forehead blue ; besides, instead of 

 having the breast with reddish and black bars, the bands are on the 

 hind neck. Dr. Meyer thinks that the supposed female may 

 belong to some other species, which seems very likely. 



Hub. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. d ad. sk. Owen Stanley Mountains (Hunstein). Purchased. 



41. PSITTINUS. 



Type. 



Psittimis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beny. xi. p. 789 



(1842) P. incertus. 



Dichrognathus, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 225. ... P. incertus. 



Cf. Cabanis, Journ.f. Orn. 1870, pp. 210-211. 



