IN TIMOR-LAUT. 357 



He admits that the feparation is l>a?ed on Tery miiuito (liiTcrciiceR, 

 which, however, ho believes will be found constant. *' Geoffroi^s [iimor- 

 laoensis^, G, keyensi, Salva., simillimnSj ^ed minor ct prinjuriio e3?timaB 

 pogonio externo vircsccnti diversus." On comparing the Timor-lant 

 birds with Kc specimens in the British Museum determintd liy Count 

 Salvador!, the case stands as follows: — Tinior-laut skins vary from 

 2i0-21)0 millim., while 0. Jceyensis (Salv.) ranges from 235-255 niillim. 

 licngth of wing in the former 1G5-170 millim., and in (J. hyimh 

 (Salv.) 175-185 millim. The tail is shorter in 6'. tlmorlaoevf^i!^ than in 

 G. keyensis ; while the tarsus agrees in both. In Timor-laut si>eci- 

 mens the external web of the outermost primary, M*herc in the upper 

 portion the colour is Hue, and in the lower fjrcent exactly agrees 

 with a specimen from Kc, of the Challenger collection, dotcrminod af? 

 Cr. 'keyensis by Salvador!. Both these arc males. A female from Ive has 

 the same region of this feather blue throughout its length; while a 

 female from Timor-laut has a very narrow yellowish edge to the green- 

 blue margin of the primary. A female obtained by the Chalhngcr natu- 

 ralists, also determined by Salvadori as G. keyensh, is identical in colo- 

 ration, while, lastly, the colour of the under Mirfaces of the wings can 

 scMrcely be detected to differ. It would a]')pear, therefore, fo far as tlie 

 skins from Timor-laut and Ive, in the British Museum and in my own 

 collection, afford material for forming an opinion, that these differential 

 characters will not be foiind to have the constancy that Dr. Meyer has 

 expected. The wing measurements certainly are less in Timor-laut 

 specimens. It is probable that the differences in coloration are duo 

 to age onlv, and are not sufficient to separate the Ke from the Tenimlier 

 birds, [IJ. 0. R] 



11. EcLKCTus ETEDELi, Meyer, P. Z. S. ISSI, p, 917. Sclater, loc. cit. 



Pi. XXVI, 



Dr. A. B. Meyer has accurately described the fem.ale of this jiiic 



species. 



All the green skins are marked " $ /' and all the red " $ ." The male 

 not yet having been described, I give short diagnoses of both sexes. 



$. Lsefe viridis, capite clariore, stihcaxidaJibus Jlavicante tirtcitis ; mb- 

 alaribus et hypochondriis coccineis ; campterio alari et remiyian prima- 

 riorum margin tbus externts et Hcundarlornm (exlus dorso rovrohrum) 

 aj)icibtis cmrtdels ; alarum payina iuferiore nigra; cauda supra virldi 

 dorso concohriy snhiiis nigra, apice j>hfs qvnm semipolh'rari ahrvpte 

 flavo; redrice nna titrinqne extima in p<*gonio exteriorc cxruUo mdato; 

 rostro siijjeriore ruhro, apice Jlavicante; inferiore nigra: long, tota 



11 '8, aLT 8 '7, caud^ 4*6. 

 $. liuhro puniceu, capite et corporc sultus rorrineis; crissojfavo; camp- 

 terio aJari et rcraignm primoriornm marginih a 8 externts r^ruleis; cauda 

 supra ad lasin viridl in ruhrum iran&aude, ad apicun latejfara, snhtiin 

 flava ad lasin nigricante ; rostro nigro; crassitie paulo minore, 



. Hub. insulus Tenimbe reuses. 

 Of the four skins in the present collection, two males (green) are from 



Larat, and one male and one female from Lutur. 



As I have remarked (P. Z. S. 1883, p. TJ). tliere can 1)C no longer any donbt 

 that Eclectus riedeli is quite a distinct s])ecie8 of the genus, characterised 

 by the broad well-defined yellow tail-end of the male, and 1>y the absence 

 of the blue on the back of the neck and on the belly in the female. 

 Neglecting E. we&termanni and Eclectus corndia, of which we do not know 



