on the Parrots. 125 



before the lead-coloured tip a tiny bright green spot, so that 

 the crown looks blackish grey with tiny green spots. Across 

 the interscapuliura an orange-brown band nearly a centi- 

 metre in width. Rerniges black with grass-green outer edges. 

 Lower surface light green, the feathers being yellowish 

 towards the bases. Feathers behind the auricular region with 

 brighter green shaft-lines. Rectrices green, all except the 

 central pair with yellow tips to the inner webs and a narrow 

 portion of the outer web, blackish from below and on the 

 inner webs. Central pair dark green from above, blackish 

 from below. Under wing-coverts green. Iris yellowish-red, 

 feet pale orange or brownish-red, bill dark dirty red. Wing 

 81 to 86 mm., tail 75 to 78, bill about 13 mm." 



Hab. Kulambangra, Solomon Is. 



This species differs from Hypocharmosyna palmarum of 

 the New Hebrides in the absence of red feathers near the 

 base of the bill, in the absence of yellow tips to the central 

 rectrices, and in the colour of the crown. It differs from 

 H. pyymota, the home of which is still unknown, in the 

 absence of yellow tips to the central rectrices, in the colour of 

 the crown, and in having a brownish-orange band across the 

 back. 



The Tring Museum has received three specimens, collected 

 by Mr. A. S. Meek. The supposed male is slightly larger 

 (wing 86) than the female (wing 81) ; otherwise the two 

 se'xes are alike. 



Hypocharmosyna palmarum (Gm.) ; Mivart, Mon. Lor. 

 pi. liii. fig. 1 (1896). 



Hypocharmosyna pygm.ea (Gm.) ; Mivart, Mon. Lor. 

 pi. liii. fig. 2 (1896); Forbes & Robins. Bull. Liverp. Mus. 

 i. no. 1, p. 7 (1897). 



This species is known only from a single example, formerly 

 in the Leverian Museum and now in the Imperial Museum 

 at Vienna. It differs from H. palmarum in lacking the red 

 feathers at the base of the bill and in being slightly smaller. 

 Mr. Layard was of opinion that it might be the female of 

 H. palmarum, and, as I have already said, I am much 



