266 THE BIRDS OF SUMBA. 



I further described a subspecies of Tanygnathus megalorhyn- 

 chus from there as sumbensis^ but Count Salvador! , in his re- 

 cently published Catalogue of the Psittaci (British Museum 

 Catalogues, Vol. XX, p. 428, note, 1892) greatly doubts 

 the correctness of the locality ascribed to these specimens 

 and was not able to recognize the differences pointed out 

 by myself. I do not see sufficient reason to dOubt the 

 habitat , moreover , all 4 specimens show the same discrimi- 

 nating characters, small though they maybe; this question , 

 however , can only be decided by further materials. Dr. ten 

 Kate did not procure a single parrot, whereas I enumerated, 

 besides the one just mentioned , 3 species , on one of which 

 I take the opportunity of offering a few remarks. 



It is that which I then called Geoffroyusjukesii Gr. (1. c. 

 p. 762) and of which I said , that it also occurs on Timor 

 and Flores. Later on, in 1884, I mentioned a specimen 

 under the same specific designation from the island of 

 Wetter (Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden, 

 Abh. I, p. 15), calling attention, however, to differences 

 of size. Both notes escaped Count Salvadori in his most 

 excellent and useful catalogue (p. 402 sq.) , where he distin- 

 guishes the following species: 



G. personatus (Shaw) z=jukesi (Gr.) from Timor, Samao, Wetter. 

 G. floresianus Salv. from Flores. 

 G. sumbavensis Salv. from Sumbawa. 



Guided by Salvadori's descriptions , I went again over the 

 3 Sumba-specimens of the Dresden Museum and came to 

 the result, that the Sumba-form cannot be relegated to 

 any of these 3 species. While G. floresianus and sumba- 

 vensis agree with G. rhodops (Gr.) in their purer and 

 darker green coloration, the Sumba-specimens belong to 

 Salvadori's first group (p. 400) ; they have the yellowish 

 green of G. personatus and its allies, but they cannot be 

 designated as personatus on account of their larger size 

 and the cap coming much lower down on the nape. I, 

 therefore , propose to call the Sumba-form : 



Notes from the Leyden Museura, "Vol. XIV. 



