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On a neiv Species of Trichoglossus /ro??i Celebes. By Arthur, Viscount Walden, F.R.S., P.Z.S. a.M.n. H. 



[From ' The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' ser. 4, vol viii., October 1871 1 scr.4,vol.viii. 



■-• p. 261. 



A LARGE collection of birds obtained by Dr. A. B. Meyer in North Celebes, and kindly placed by 



him at my disposal for examination, contains several examples of a hitherto undescribed species 



of Trichoglossus. They evidently belong to the same species which supplied the individual 



referred to by Mr. Wallace (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 337) as having been collected by him at 



Menado, but which was unfortunately destroyed before he had been able to identify it. He 



referred it, however, with some confidence, to T. flamviridis of the Sula Islands. Dr. O. Finsch, 



in his well-known work (Papag. ii. p. 850), not deeming the evidence sufficient, restricted the 



range of T. flavoviridis to the Sula Islands; and the examples sent from Menado by Dr. Meyer 



fully justify this caution. The North-Celebean form, although possessing a general resemblance 



to T.flaroviridis, is a distinct species, chiefly diflfering by wanting the yellow head and breast and 



the black chin and nuchal collar of the Sula bird ; in it also the bill is shorter and less produced. 



Trichoglossus meteri, n. sp. 



Green ; forehead, occiput, and nape dark olive-brown tinged with golden, most marked on 

 the forehead. Cheeks and loreal plumes same as head, but each feather with a yellow border. 

 Ear-coverts bright yellow, forming an isolated, distinct, yellow patch on each side of the head. 

 Under surface one uniform tint of greenish yellow, each feather bordered with dark o-reen. Inter- 

 scapularies yellow at base, broadly bordered with the prevailing green of the back. Under tail- 

 and wing-coverts light yellowish green. The ear-coverts are of the same shade of yellow as the A. 31. N. H. 

 breast-feathers in T. flavoviridis • and the plumage of the entire under surface closely resembles s'^r-^Aol-vm. 

 the abdominal covering of the Sula bird. 



" Irides cherry-red, feet greyish blue, bill orange-red " {Meyer). Wing 4 inches ; tail IK 

 Dr. Meyer informs me that he possesses the bird alive at Menado, from the vicinity of which 

 town his specimens were procured. 



'Notice of a new Species of Polihierax /rom Burma. By Viscount Waldex, P.Z.S. P.Z.S.lSTi 



[From the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,' November 7, 1871.] P- ^^''• 



Mr. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of the Viscount Walden, President of the Society, skins of 

 both sexes of anew and most interesting Falconine bird of the genus Polihierax, which had been 

 recently obtained in the vicinity of Tonghoo, in Burma, and transmitted to Lord Walden by 

 Major Lloyd. 



In this species, which Lord Walden was intending to describe and figure under the name 

 Polihierax insignis, the whole of the back of the head in the female sex, as well as the upper 

 back, was of a deep chestnut, being in the male grey striated with black. In both sexes the white 

 plumage below was marked on the neck and breast with black shaft-stripes. The tail was black 



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