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back ; tail-feathers greeuit'h brown, edged with bright green like 

 the back, the tips fringed with yellow ; forehead and sinciput 

 scarlet, tending towards a point in the middle of the crown ; from 

 behind the eye a broad purplish-blue band extends round the 

 occiput to behind the opposite eye ; the nape-feathers browo, 

 washed with lilac and faintl}^ streaked with dull scarlet ; lores, 

 sides of face, and ear-coverts lilac-red, with a bluish shade along 

 the upper margin of the latter ; below the eye the feathers rather 

 lighter in colour and having indistinct tiny streaks of dull blue ; 

 under surface of body yellowish greeu, streaked with dark green 

 down the centre of the feathers, more narrowly on the under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts like the breast and streaked 

 mth dark green in the same manner ; quills dusky below, all 

 but the outer primaries oily yellow for two thirds of the inner 

 web, forming a conspicuous diagonal patch across the wing when 

 uplifted. Total length 6 5 inches, eulmen 6, wing 4"2, tail 3'1, 

 tarsus 0'5. 



The type first described was either a female or a young male, 

 as in the second collection Mr. Groldie has seut two fully adult 

 birds, evidently males in full plumage. I have therefore given 

 a more complete description above. 



CoEiPHiLUS WiLHELMiN^ {Meyer) ; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 302. 

 No. 42. Morocco district. " Ciguri." 



In the first collection two specimens were sent, which looked 

 so different from Gould's plate of C. Wilkelmina;, that I was at 

 first disposed to consider them as belonging to a distinct species. 

 In the second collection there was an adult male, which leaves no 

 doubt o£ the species ; so that this pretty little Parrakeet extends 

 from the Arfak Mountains down to the Astrolabe range. 



Botli the specimens first sent by Mr. Groldie appear to be 

 immature males. One has the occipital streaks purplish blue and 

 very indistinct, has no trace of red on the lower back, and the 

 streaks on the breast emerald-green. In the second the striae on 

 the breast are pale yellow, and there is a slight appearance of 

 scarlet on the back ; but there is no indication of any streaks on 

 the occiput at all. 



CoRiPHiLUS suBPLACENS, Sclater ; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 310. No. 41. 

 Taburi district. " Keci." [A. G.'] 



Charmosvnopsis pulchella {Gray) ; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 317. 

 No. 49. Morocco district. " Oilama." \_A. G.} 



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