-jl>. CYANORnvMrHUS. 577 



Adult male. Face, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck blue, 

 deeper on the forehead and cheeks ; upper surface grass-green ; 

 occiput and nape green, washed with blue; chest rich scarlet, 

 sides green ; abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow ; upper 

 wing-coverts pale or lazuline blue ; under wing-coverts deep 

 indigo-blue ; primary-coverts and primaries black, slightly tinged 

 with blue, the last with greenish outer edges towards the tip ; 

 secondaries blue tinged with green, the last inner secondaries green ; 

 two central tail-feathers dark green ; the next pair green on the 

 outer web, black on the inner ; the remaining tail-feathers with the 

 base green on the outer web and black on the inner, and largely 

 tipped with bright yellow, which increases in extent as the feathers 

 recede from the centre : bill black ; feet brown. Total length 

 8 inches, wing 4*4, tail 3*8, bill - 46, tarsus 0*45. 



Female. Much duller than the male; face and upper wing-coverts 

 pale lazuline blue ; no yellowish tinge on the lores as in the female 

 of N. pulchella ; no scarlet colour on the chest, which is green ; 

 upper parts, including the nape and crown, green with orange tinge. 



Bab. Southern Australia, from New South Wales to S.W. Aus- 

 tralia. 



a. Ad. st. S. Australia. Massena Coll. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. S.W. Australia {J. T. CockereU). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



50. CYANORHAMPHUS. _ 



Type. 



Cyanorhamphus, Bp. Rev. et Mai/, de Zool. 1854, 



p. 153 C. erythronotus. 



Range. New Zealand subregiou, New Caledonia with the 

 Loyalty Islands, and Society Islands. 



Key to the Species*. 



a. Rump and upper tail-coverts brown-red. 



a. Head brown-black ulietanu*, p. 579. 



* I am not acquainted with the following species, and therefore cannot 

 place it in the Key ; it seems allied to C. erytkroti& from Macquarie Island :— 



Ctahorhaxphus nocHsramsBi. 



Platycercus hocbstetteri, Iieisch. Tr. New Zeal. Inst. xxi. p. 3S7 (1889). 



"Plumage similar to the preceding (C. unicolor), with the exception that the 

 emerald-green round the bill is not so conspicuous, and that the top of the 

 forehead, a streak below the eye, and a patch ou each side of the tail-oovorta 

 are brownish red. On the back of the neck the basal half of each feather is 

 yellow. Total length 12-25 inches, bill 1, wing .">(">, primaries 4'25, tail 4v. 

 tarsus 0'9, middle toe 1*15. 



" The female is smaller in sue, duller in plumage, and the red is nol so 

 conspicuous." (Reischek. ) 



Hah. Antipodes Island. 

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