by the B.O.U. Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. 109 



occiput and sides of the head are entirely black ; between 

 the gape and the ear is a patch of deep plum-colour ; the 

 upper half of the back of the neck is electric-blue, shading 

 into violet-blue on the sides and fore-part of tlie neck 

 including the throat ; the lower half of the back of the 

 neck is orange-chrome, this colour extending down the 

 upper margin of a bare magenta-coloured area situated on 

 each side of the feathered part of the neck. This fine bird 

 is now mounted and on exhibition in the Bird Gallery at 

 the Natural History Museum. 



List of the Principal Papers relating to the Birds of 

 Neiv Guinea, including the Kei and Aru Islands. 



1858. Sclater [P. L.). Jouru. liiiin. Soc. Loudon, Zool. ii. pp. 149-170 



(1858). 

 1875-88. Gould, Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands. 



(Completed by R. B. Sharpe) (1875-88). 

 1880-82 Salvadori. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molluche. 

 & 1889-91. Vols, i.-iii. (1880-82). Aggiunte, pts. i.-iii. (1889-91). 



1883. Ramsmj. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. viii. pp. 15-29 (1883). 



1884. Sharpe. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. pp. 405-408 (1884). 

 Meijer. Zeit. ges. Orn. i. pp. 269-296, pis. xiv.-xviii. (1884). 



1885. Finsch and Meyer. Zeit. ges. Orn. ii. pp. 369-391, pis. xv.- 



xxii. (1885). 

 Guillemard. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 615-665, pi. xxxix. 



1886. Meyer. Monat. Schutze Vogelw. 1886, pp. 85-88, pi. 

 Meyer. P. Z. S. 1886, pp. 297-298. 



Finsch and Meyer. Zeit. ges. Orn. iii. pp. 1-29, pis. i.-vi. 



(1886). 

 Meyer. Zeit. ges. Orn. iii. pp. 30-38 (1886). 

 Salvadori. Ibis, 1886, pp. 151-155. 



1887. Banisay. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) ii. pp. 239-240 (1887). 

 Bartlett. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 392. 



Oustalet. Le Nat. i. pp. 180-182 (1887). 



1888. Meyer. Reisen in Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und Englisch New- 



Guinea in dem Jahren 1884 u. 1885 an Bord des Deutschen 

 Dampfers " Samoa." Leipzig, 1888. 

 Cabanis. J. f. O. 1888, p. 119. 



1889. Cabanis. J. f. O. 1889, p. 62, pis. i. & ii. 

 Meyer. J. f. 0. 1889, pp. 321-326. 



J)e Vis. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vi. pp. 245-248 (1889). 



