428 Notes on the Parrots. 



Mr. Rothschild says that at first he thought that the type 

 of this species might be a melamstic specimen of C. stella, 

 but was afterwards persuaded that the assumption could not 

 be justified. 



Oreopsittacus Salvad. 



Oreopsittacus arfaki (Meyer) ; Mivart, Mon. Lor. pi. lx. 

 (1896). 



Oreopsittacus grandis Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. v. 

 p. xv (Owen Stanley Mountains) (no. xxxi., 1895) ; id. Ibis, 

 1896, p. 258; Mivart, Mon. Lor. pi. lxi. (1896) ; Rothsch. 

 Nov. Zool. v. p. 510 (1898) ; Dubois, Syn. Av. p. 33, 

 no. 415 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 7, no. 2 (1900) ; 

 Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii. p. 72 (1901). 



Oreopsittacus viridigaster De Vis, Rep. Brit. New Guin. 

 1898, App. p. 81; Rothsch. Nov. Zool. v. p. 510 (1898) 

 ( = O. grandis) . 



Oreopsittacus chlorogaster (nom. emend.) Sharpe, Zool. 

 Record, 1898, Aves, p. 43 (1899) ; Dubois, Syn. Av. p. 1055, 

 no. 415 (fasc. xiv., 1903). 



? Oreopsittacus frontalis Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. viii. 

 p. 186 (1900) (Aroa River, S.E. New Guinea). 



Similar to O. arfaki, but somewhat larger; the male 

 without any red on the abdomen, the female without any 

 orauge on the abdomen, which is uniform green. 



Male. Upper parts dai'k green ; the pileum bright red, but 

 not so bright as in O. arfaki, while the red colour is more 

 extended than in that species. The cheeks and ear-coverts 

 are dark blue with white spots, but the blue is darker and 

 the white spots are larger than in O. arfaki. There is 

 no red on the abdomen, though there are some red feathers 

 on the flanks, hidden under the wing. The breast and the 

 abdomen are green and the under tail-coverts green and 

 yellow. The thighs are dark green. The primaries are 

 mainly blackish, but externally edged with blue, which is, 

 however, much less bright than in O. arfaki. The under 

 wing-coverts are red, and there is a yellow band beneath the 

 wing, formed by yellow patches in the middle of the inner 



