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breast, a more dusky crown, and the nape more or less tinged with green. A 

 variety shows broad yellow subterrninal bars to the feathers of the upper breast. 

 The wings measure 125 130 mm. 



50. Cacatua parvula (Bp.). 



Shot in the hills from 1000 to 5000 feet high. " Iris dark brown; bill and feet 

 black." Two females with the wings 225 and 227 mm., three males with wings from 

 225 232 mm. Bills varying a little, but not much, in size. 



*51. Geoffroyus sumbavensis Salvad. 



In the hills from 2000 to 4000 feet above the sea. A series of Lombok 

 specimens agrees in every respect with the types of G. sumbavensis and a series of 

 skins collected by Doherty in Sambawa. The adult female has the head dull 

 brownish brick-red, just between figs. 11 and 14 on Plate IV. of Eidgway's 

 Nomencl. Col., slightly paler on the sides of the head, merging into greenish yellow 

 on the upper throat. Both sexes, when quite young, have the head green like the 

 back; young males, before moulting into the lilac-blue colour on the crown, assume 

 a brick-red crown similar to that of the old female. 



Whether it will eventually be possible to keep G. sumbavensis distinct from 

 G.Jloresianus seems somewhat doubtful. The large series before me now measure 

 as follows, only evident males not in moult being measured : Sambawa, wing 

 159168 mm., mostly 160164 ; Lombok, 160168, mostly 160165 ; one 

 male from Flores, collected by Wallace, 159 mm.; while Salvadori gives {Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. XX. p. 407) 152 mm. as the length of the wing of G. Jloresianus. 

 The difference of the length of the wings is therefore slight, and besides it I 

 can see none, except a somewhat darker colour of the under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries. A good series of Flores skins from different places is wanted. 



The iris of Lombok skins is described as " pale yellowish; the maxilla as orange, 

 tipped with dirty ochre-yellow; the mandible blackish; feet dirty brownish, claws 

 blackish." Females and young birds have the maxilla brown, or blackish, like the 

 mandible. 



*52. Osmotreron griseicauda (Schleg.). 

 At 2000 feet above the sea. 



53. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.). 

 At about 2000 feet. 



*54. Ptilinopus albocinctus Wall. 



Hitherto only known from Flores, while Timor is inhabited by the quite 

 different, though closely allied, P. cinctus. Lombok specimens are quite like the 

 type and only known specimen of P. albocinctus in the British Museum. The sexes 

 are perfectly alike, though, on an average, the female seems to have the wing 

 5 to 10 mm. shorter than the male. Young birds have yellow edges to the feathers 

 above and below. " Iris orange ; beak pea-green, tip ochreous ; feet beet-red with 

 dark claws." Wing : males 160170 mm., females 155159. 



