86 Dr. G. Hartlaub on Agapornis swinderniana. 



of Stettin, Mr. Schweizer, rediscovered this fine species in 

 the colony of Liberia. 



Dr. Dohrn informs me that Mr, Schweizer met with this 

 Parrot in the interior of the colony, where it frequents the 

 fruit-trees and oil-palms in flocks of from ten to twenty indi- 

 viduals, but is not very abundant. Ten examples were pro- 

 cured altogether, whereof two are now in the Berlin Mu- 

 seum, one in the Bremen Museum, one in the Museo Civico 

 of Genoa, and one in the collection of Count E, Turati of 

 Milan, Four very fine skins which remain in Dr. Dohrn^s 

 hands, are still to be had at 60 marks apiece. In Cabanis's 

 ' Journal fiir Ornith.^ for 1877 there is a very good figure of 

 the species, taken from one of these specimens. 



KuhFs description being very incomplete, I subjoin a 

 better one : — 



Ad. (^ . The principal colour is a vivid Parrot-green ; sides 

 of head, under wing-coverts, and under tail-coverts paler ; a 

 short nuchal band black, irregularly bordered below by 

 another of an obsolete fulvous yellow ; this yellow band ex- 

 tends in a paler and more indistinct hue round the fore neck, 

 upper part of back, throat, and breast, more or less shaded 

 with a fulvescent lemon-yellow ; lower part of back, uropy- 

 gium, and upper tail-coverts of an intense and most splendid 

 blue ; basal half of tail-feathers of a fine scarlet, followed by 

 a black band before the green tips ; underside of the apical 

 part of the rectrices pale glaucous bluish ; scapulars and 

 smaller wing-coverts green ; larger wing-coverts and remiges 

 black, margined with green on the outside ; beak of a dark 

 bluish horn-colour, with paler tomiae and culmen ; feet 

 bluish. Total length 15 centims., wing 94 mill., tail 34 mill. 



The sexes do not differ in colour ; but in the young bird 

 the breast is not yellowish, as in the adult, but of an obsolete 

 and pale greyish green, and the black nuchal collar is entirely 

 wanting. 



