330 Count T. Salvadori— Notes 



crown washed with blue. (There is one feather on the crown, 

 just above the forehead, yellow with an orange tip. Whether 

 this is normal or not we cannot say.) Wings blackish, 

 outer webs with narrow green edges, inner webs edged with 

 olive-brown. Central pair of rectrices blue with black 

 shafts ; next pair of rectrices black on the inner webs, tips 

 greenish blue, outer webs bluish green with a black patch, 

 following pair black, broad apical portion green with a yellow 

 spot on the inner web, the two lateral pairs with the outer 

 web green, inner Aveb black, apical third to fifth yellow. 

 Under-side yellowish green, darker and purer green on the 

 thighs and flanks ; feathers of the cheeks with pale blue 

 tips, under-tail-coverts yellow with wide green tips. Under- 

 wing-coverts yellowish green. c Iris pale red, feet pale 

 bluish slate, bill dark slate-coloured/ Wing 60, tail (with 

 free end of shaft) 28^, bare portion of shaft about 3-l|, 

 tarsus 7\, middle toe 13, bill (end of cere to tip) 7 mm. 



" ? . Like the male, but cheek-feathers orange, under-side 

 perhaps slightly more yellowish. The markings of the 

 rectrices vary a little, but agree essentially with those in 

 the male. Wings 58-62 mm. 



" Hub. Ysabel, Choiseul, and Bougainville, Solomon 

 Islands." 



To this description Rothschild and Hartert add the 

 following remark : — " Nasitema nanina is most closely allied 

 to N aolce from Guadalcanar, from which it differs in its 

 smaller size and (if the colours in our N. nanina are fully 

 developed) in the lesser extent of the blue area on the crown 

 and cheeks." 



Nasiterna tristrami Rothsch. & Hartert. 



Nasitema nanina part., Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 viii. p. 188 (1901) (Kulambangra). 



Nasiterna tristrami Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. 

 p. 589 (1902) (Kulambangra) ; Dub. Syn. Av. p. 1051, n. 9 

 (1903). 



Nasiterna aolee tristrami Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 xii. p. 254 (1905) (Kulambangra, Rendova, New Georgia, 

 and Gizo). 



