Letters, Announcements, S^c. 287 



(J. A. S. B. 1875, extra no., p. 116). I must confess that 

 when I described S. bocagei I was unacquainted with S. assi- 

 milis ; and even now I have not seen a specimen of this bird. 

 If Mr. Hume will kindly send me one, I shall be glad to com- 

 pare it with the type of S. bocagei, and certainly will not fail 

 to let him know if they are of the same species or not. 



I take this opportunity of correcting a mistake of mine 

 in the original description of Aprosmictus callopterus (Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 29), which has also crept into the 

 description of the same bird in my ' Ornitologia della 

 Papuasia e delle Molucche,^ pt. i. p. 135. The mistake is 

 contained in the first two lines of the description, " Capite, 

 collo et gastrseo toto rubro-puniceis ; interscapulio, uropygio, 

 supracaudalibus et subcaudalibus pulchre cyaneis." Now 

 the under tail-coverts in A. callopterits a,re not blue [cyaneus), 

 but red, like the rest of the underparts. After the correction 

 the description will run as follows : — "Capite, collo et gastraeo 

 toto riibro-puniceis ; interscapulio, uropygio et supracauda- 

 libus pulchre cyaneis.^^ It is important to point out the mis-, 

 take, as in the allied species, Aprosmictus chloropterus, Ramsay, 

 the under tail-coverts are really dark bluish, edged with red. 



As I have entered upon the subject of Papuan birds, I may as 

 well dwell upon it a little longer, and say a few words on some 

 species lately described by M. Oustalet in a paper noticed 

 in the last number of 'The Ibis.^ Four species are there 

 described — a second species of Drepanornis, a Cyclopsittacus 

 which M. Oustalet has kindly named after me, Chloromyias 

 laglaizei, and Pomareopsis semiatra. 



As to Chloromyias laglaizei, I have already pointed out 

 (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi. p. 70) that it is the female of 

 Parus arfaki, Meyer, the same sex having been described 

 also by me in 1875 as Oreocharis stictoptera. 



The Pomareopsis semiatra is my Grallina bruij'tiii. Of this 

 I am satisfied, a sketch of the bird having been kindly sent 

 me by M. Oustalet. 



Cyclopsittacus salvadorii seems a beautiful and perfectly 

 distinct species ; but I am not quite sure that equally distinct 

 from its ally. Drepanornis albertisi, is the newly described 



