92 COUNT T. SALVADORI ON THE [Jail. 15, 



Astur contumax, Rosenb. Reis naar zuidoostereil. p. 36 (Aru), 

 descr. nulla (1867). 



Vrospizias spilothorax, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 900. 

 sp. 1 (1875), Arfak and Jobi, x. pp. 115, 117. sp. 5 (1877). 



Accipiter etorques, part., Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 109. n. 45 (young 

 specimen). 



[No. 253. Male, from Wanumbai.— J. M.'] 



This bird is young. 



I have found in the museums of Leyden and Berlin two specimens 

 which are very much like my U. spilothorax ; but they have only a 

 few longitudinal dark spots on the lower part of the breast, showing 

 that these spots are not a permanent character, and that my U. spilo- 

 thorax represents only a stage of U. poliocephalus. 



4. MlCROGLOSSUS ATERRIMUS (Gm.). 



[No. 206. Wokan. Male: eyes black; cheek-membrane red; 

 stomach contained many of the insides of kernels of nuts. This was 

 shot on the top of one of the highest trees. Only one seen at the 

 time.—/. M.~] 



I have seen many specimens from the Aru Islands, and these are 

 in general much smaller than those from New Guinea ; and I think 

 that the type of Psittacus alecto, Temm., which I have seen in the 

 Museum of Leyden, must have come from the Aru Islands 1 . I do 

 not think that there is more than one species of the genus Micro- 

 glossus. 



5. Cyclopsittactjs melanogenys (Rosenb.). 



"Psittacula melanogenia, Rosenb." Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. v. 

 Dierk. iii. p. 330 (1866), Aru (type examined); Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. 

 Ned. Ind. xxix. p. 142 (1867). 



Psittacula melanogenys, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 626 (1868). 



Cyclopsittacus melanogenys, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 29, 

 sp. 33(1877). 



[No. 207. Wokan. Female : eyes black ; legs with a greenish 

 tinge. 



No. 208. Wokan. Probably a male ; but the specimen was too 

 much injured to determine. — J. M.~\ 



The example, without indication of the sex, is most likely a female, 

 having the ear-coverts orange. 



6. ECLECTUS POLYCHLORTJS (Scop.). 



Psittacus polychlorus, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. p. 87, 

 n. 27 (1786) (ex Sonnerat), cf- 



Eclectus linncei, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 571, t. xxi. (1832), $ . 



Eclectus polychlorus, var. aruensis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 

 183. 



1 The specimen in the Berlin Museum, which has been regarded as a second 

 one of M. alecto. looks smaller than the New-Guinea specimens from having 

 the primaries cut off. 



