628 ME. R. B. SHAEPE ON THE 



I cannot find any difference between the specimen from Port 

 Moresby and others from Australia iu the British Museum. 



4. Aprosmictus chloroptekus, Bamsay, I. c. p. 251. — A. 

 Broadbenti, Sharpe,Ann. S{ Mag. Nat. Hist. April 1879, p. 313. 



Adult male. Greneral colour above blackisli, with a slight green- 

 ish wash, the scapulars like the back ; head all round crimson, 

 with the exception of the nape and hind neck, which are bright 

 blue, this colour extending on to the upper part of the mantle ; 

 lesser wing-coverts along the edge of the wing blackish like the 

 back, with a very faint wash of blue ; the inferior lesser coverts 

 and the whole of the median series bright yellowish green, fomn- 

 ing a large shoulder-patch ; greater wing-coverts dark like the 

 back ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and primary quills rather 

 brighter green externally, blackish on the inner web ; the inner 

 secondaries darker, and becoming blacker as they adjoin the sca- 

 pulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep blue ; tail 

 dull blackish, with a slight greenish gloss on the two centre fea- 

 thers, the rest washed with blue externally ; sides of face, throat, 

 and entire under surface bright crimson ; the under tail-coverts 

 blue-black, tipped with the same crimson as the breast ; under 

 wing-coverts deep blue, the greater series and the lower surface 

 of the quills black. 



Closely allied to A. callopterus of the Ply Eiver, but having the 

 nape blue as well as the mantle, whereas the whole head is red in 

 the above-mentioned species. A. chloropterus is also a slightly 

 smaller bird. 



5. Eos EUSCATA, Blyth ; Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civic. Genov. x. 

 p. 34 ; 'Ramsay, I. c. p. 258. 



A numerous series in Mr. Broadbent's collection, as well as in 

 Mr. Goldie's. 



6. ISTasiteena keiensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. 

 p. 26 ; Gould, B. JSfeio Guinea, part vi. — N. pusilla, Bamsay, I. c. 

 p. 251. 



A specimen was in Mr. Broadbent's collection, and another in 

 Mr. Groldie's. As far as I can judge without actually comparing 

 specimens, these little Pygmy Parrots appear to belong to the 

 species described by Count Salvadori from the Ee Islands. 



7. ScYTHEOPS NOY^-HOLLANDi^, Lath. ; Sliarpe, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xiii. p. 492 ; Bamsay, I. c. p. 259. 



