810 MB. R. B. SHARPE ON THE 



the Papuan bird is rather larger and has got a more orange tint 

 in the face, this being not so deep rosy red. 



8. Ctolopsittacus ceryicalis. — C. cervicalis, Salvad. Sf 

 B' Albert, t. c. p. 811 ; Salvad. t. c. p. 12. 



a. Eucalyptus range, mainland, east of Tule Island, Feb. 1876. 



The following is a description of this Parrot, which has been, 

 apparently with good reason, separated by Count Salvadori : — 



General colour above grass-green, rather deeper on the mantle ; 

 head vermilion, ratber more orange on the crown, the nape and 

 hinder neck cobalt, continued in a band down the sides of the neck, 

 wbicb are also slightly washed witli blue; sides efface and ear-coverts 

 bright vermilion, as also the throat and fore neck, the latter mixed 

 with orange-yellow, the bases to the feathers being of the same 

 colour ; across the chest a band of bright ultramarine continuous 

 with the band down the side of the neck ; some of the feathers of 

 the breast below this blue band orange, with bluish green bases ; 

 remainder of under surface yellowish green, darker green on the 

 lower flanks ; the sides of the breast and under wing-coverts bright 

 verditer-blue, the greater series yellowish ; the under surface of 

 the quills blackish, yellow along the inner webs ; upper wing- 

 coverts grass-green like the back, those near the edge of the wing 

 blue ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, externally greenish 

 blue, with a narrow edging of yellow towards the tip of the outer 

 web ; the secondaries darker green and more like the back ; tail 

 grass-green, narrowly edged with brighter green. Total length 

 7'8 inches, culmen 1, wing 4*6, tail 2*1, tarsus 0-5. 



Fam. CrcTJLiD^. 



9. Lamprococctx luctdtjs.— L. lucidus (Gm.); Salvad. 4' 

 D' Albert, t. c. 1^.813. 



a. Aleya, April 1876. 



10. Eudtnamis CTAJsrocEPHALA. — E. cyauocehala (Lath.); 

 Salvad. t. c. ix. p. 17. 



a, 6 ad. Tule Island, b, c, d juv. Tule Island, Dec. 1876. 



11. Centeopus spilopteeus, Gray; Sharpe, antea, p. 81. — 

 Polophilus nigricans, Salvad. t. c. p. 17. 



a-c, 6 . Tule Island, Nov. & Dec. 1876. d. Nicura, Dec. 1876. 



These specimens belong to the same species as the Port-Moresby 

 bird referred to above {anted,, p. 81), and I have no doubt that 

 Polophilus nigricans of Salvadori (l. c.) is the same species. 



