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Microglossia Geoffr. St.-Hil. 



Microglossus aterrimus (Gm.) ; Buttik. Not. Leyd. Mus. 

 xvi. pp. 166-167 (19th Nov., 1894) * ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1898, 

 p. 56 (nesting-habits) ; Dub. Syn. Av. i. p. 1, n. 2 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 9 (1900). 



Microglossus salvadorii Meyer, Bull. B. O. C. iv. p. vi 

 (Arfak Mts.) (21st Nov., 1894) ; id. Ibis, 1895, p. 145 ; 

 Dub. Syn. Av. i. p. 1, n. 3 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 9, n. 2 (1900) ( = aterrimus). 



Microglossus aterrimus aterrimus Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. viii. p. 77 (1901). 



Dr. Meyer (I. c.) has described as belonging to a distinct 

 species a bird which differs from the adult of M. aterrimus 

 in being more or less varied or banded with yellow ; in the 

 ' Catalogue of the Parrots ' I have described a similar bird 

 as the young of M. aterrimus ; Dr. Biittikofer {I. c.) has 

 done the same, and I believe that this view is correct. It 

 must be remembered that the genus Microglossus is nearly 

 allied to the Australian genus Calyptorhynchus, the members 

 of which have the young and even the females variegated 

 with yellow. 



Microglossus alecto (Less.). 



Microglossus aterrimus var. alecto Dub. Syn. Av. i. p. 1 

 (1899). 



Microglossus aterrimus alecto Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. viii. p. 77 (1901). 



The Microglossi from the Aru Islands and the Western 

 Papuan Islands, as already stated by me in the ' Catalogue 

 of the Parrots/ although smaller than those from the main- 

 land, can, in my opinion, scarcely be recognised as a distinct 

 form. 



Calyptorhynchus V. & H. 



Calyptorhynchus baudini Vig. ; Le Souef Victor. 

 Natural, xvi. p. 102 (1899) (eggs) ; Dub. Syn. Av. i. p. 1 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 10, n. 1 (1900) ; Milligan, 

 Emu, iii. pp. 12, 19, pi. ii. (nest) (1903). 



* " On the Immature Dress of Microglossus aterrimus:' 



