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tudinal bars, which are more or less continuous. Thighs 

 rusty white. Under tail-coverts rusty, with broad fuscous 

 centres. Edge of wing white. Under wing-coverts rufous; 

 the greater series fuscous, broadly barred with white. Bill 

 fuscous, the culmen and tip yellowish white. Feet pinky 

 brown. Tarsus rufous, with fuscous centres; the feathers 

 descending to the toes. Total length 285 mm., wing 2.22, 

 tarsus 31. A second example, with the legs tied as a female, 

 has the head uniform with the rest of the upper surface, and 

 the abdomen with continuous longitudinal bars, 



2. MiCROGLOSSUS ATERRIMUS, Gm. 



Owen-Stanley Range, ascending to about 5000 feet. 



3. Nasiterna bruijni, Salvad. 

 Musgrave Range, at 8000 feet. 



4. Aprosmictus chloropterus, Rams. 

 Owen-Stanley Range, at from 7000 to 9000 feet. 



5. PsiTACELLA BREHMII, Roseub. 



Musgrave Range, at 4500 feet. 



6. Geoffroyus sudestiensis, n. sp. {Op. cit. p. 107.) 

 Male. Above bright green, beneath paler. Front, cheeks, 



chin, throat, and ear-coverts cinnabar-red, the last tipped 

 with lilac. Head and fore neck pale lilac-tinted blue, on the 

 vertex strongly tinged in certain lights with yellow. Quills 

 fuscous, first primary narrowly edged with dark blue, rest of 

 quills with their outer webs entirely, and inner webs to an 

 increasing extent, green. No shoulder-spot. Axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts bright blue, under surface of wing 

 fuscous; upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers above 

 yellowish green, inner webs and under surface of tail greenish 

 yellow. Rump green. Maxilla red, with the tip pale, man- 

 dible bluish fuscous. Feet fuscous. Total length 240 mm., 

 wing 175, tail 100, bill 24, tarsus 15. 



Hab. Sudest Island. 



A species distinguished from the two red-throated species 

 by a strong wash of yellow on the head, visible only iu 

 certain lights, and by the absence of the cubital spot. 



