416 Count T. Salvadori— Notes 



Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 572 (Bima) (1896) ; Forbes & 

 Robins. Bull. Liverp. Mus. i. no. 1, p. 6 (1897). 



Trichoglossus hcematodus forsteni Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. viii. p. 68 (1901). 



To my description of the adult in the 'Catalogue of Birds' 

 must be added indications of a purple-blue patch behind 

 the light green collar. This patch is wanting in the 

 young bird, which differs also in having the red breast- 

 feathers with a yellow tinge and dark green edges ; the 

 middle of the abdomen is green, not purple. 



Forbes and Robinson rightly notice that " in the figure of 

 T. forsteni in Mivart's Monograph the yellow-green ring, 

 though described in the text, has been entirely omitted." 



Trichoglossus djampeanus Hartert. 



Trichoglossus forsteni, part., Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 176 

 (Djampea I.) (1896). 



Trichoglossus forsteni djampeanus Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv. 

 p. 172 (1897). 



Trichoglossus djampeanus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 4, no. 4 

 (1900). 



Trichoglossus hcematodus djampeanus Rothsch. & Hartert, 

 Nov. Zool. viii. p. 68 (1901). 



"In every way like T. forsteni, from which it differs only 

 in having a slightly longer wing and larger bill, the fore- 

 head deeper blue, and a large and conspicuous purple patch 

 behind the light green collar" (R. fy H.). The differences 

 between the birds of Sumbawa and Djampea appear to me 

 to be very small indeed and scarcely of even subspecific 

 value. 



It is interesting to notice that while Dr. Hartert, in last 

 mentioning this form, places it as a subspecies of T. hcematodus, 

 he made it in the first description a subspecies of T. forsteni, 

 to which in reality it is more nearly allied than to typical 

 T. hcematodus. It follows that Dr. Hartert would have 

 been quite justified if he had used for the Djampean bird a 

 quadrinomial Trichoglossus hcematodus forsteni djampeanus, 

 to shew that it is a form of T. hcematodus and an under- 

 subspecies of T. forsteni. 



