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The species Lave been revised by Rothschild and Hartert 

 in their excellent " Notes on Papuan Birds " {' Novitates 

 Zoological, 5 viii. pp. 79-81), and also in other papers referring 

 to the birds of the Solomon Islands. Four new species have 

 been described since the publication of the c Catalogue of 

 Parrots/ Rothschild and Hartert have, moreover, published 

 a map shewing the distribution of the genus Nasiterna (Nov. 

 Zool. viii. pi. iii.), but it is incomplete, as four species from 

 the Solomon Islands are not included, nor is the doubtful 

 N. orient alls from S.E. New Guinea. 



Nasiterna bruijxi Salvad. ; Forb. & Robins. Bull. Liverp. 

 Mus. i. p. 9 (1897) ; Dub. Syn. Av. i. p. 23, n. 296 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 12, n. 1 (1900) : Doherty, Nov. Zool. 

 viii. p. 56 (1901) (Kapaur) ; Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 viii. p. 79 (pt, ?) (1901) (Arfak, Kapaur). 



Dr. Hartert writes to me that the Ambernoh River, by 

 some mistake, has been mentioned (Bull. B. O. C. x. p. ci, 

 1900) among the localities whence the Tring Museum has 

 received individuals of tin's species. 



Nasiterna orientalis De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New 

 Guin. 1896-97, App. p. 81 ( Vanapa Valley, S.E. New Guinea) 

 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 12, n. 2 (1900) ; Dub. Syn. 

 Av. p. 1031, n. 10 (1903). 



Nasiterna bruijni De Vis (nee Salvad.?), Ann. Rep. Brit. 

 New Guin. 1888-89, p. 58 (1890) (Musgrave Range) ; it'. 

 Colon. Papers, n. 103, p. 107 (1890) ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 28; 

 Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 89 (1891). 



Nasiterna bruijni orientalis Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 viii. p. 79 (1901) (Brit. New Guinea). 



In the Tring Museum there are five specimens of a Nasi- 

 terna from British New Guinea (Mt. Owen Stanley and Eafa 

 district), which Rothschild and Hartert believe to belong 

 to N. bruijni, so that it is very likely that the bird described 

 by Mr. De Vis is not different from the typical North- 

 western form. Anyhow, De Vis's description, taken from 

 a spirit-specimen, runs as follows: — "Like iV. bruijni, but 

 with the two outer rcctriccs green and their tips orange-red 



