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is also like in colour to the specimen (C. amboinensis) from Am- 

 boyna, while in this the bill is rather larger and more arched than 

 either of the others, and the tail and wings are rather less in length 

 than in the New Ireland species. 



Length 8" 9'" to the end of middle tail-feathers : wings 4" 2'". 



Hab. Aru Islands. S 5 in changes. In British Museum. 



77. Gracula Dumontii. 



Mino Dumontii, Less. Voy. Cocpi. t. 26. 



Gracula Dumontii, Wagl. 



Hab. Aru Islands, c? 5 in British Museum. 



Psittacid,e. 



78. coriphilus placentis. 



Psittacus placentis, Temm. PI. Col. 553. 

 Coriphilus placentis, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 4 1 7. 

 Psitteuteles 2jlacens,^'p. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157. 

 Hab. Aru Islands, d 1 in Mr. Wallace's Collection. 



79. ECLECTUS LlNNjEI. 



Eclectus Linncei, Wagl. Monagr. Psitt. p. 571. t. 22. 

 Eclectus puniceus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 155. 

 Hab. Aru Islands. $ in British Museum. 



80. Eclectus polychloros. 



Var. aruensis. 



Psittacus magnus, pt., Wagl. 



This variety differs from the E. polychloros by having the ends of 

 the tail-feathers above more prominently tipped with yellow, which 

 is in some feathers tinged with purple. 



Hab. Aru Islands. S in British Museum. 



81. Chalcopsitta rubrifrons. (PI. CXXXV.) 



The front, lores, sides of the breast, and spots on throat carmine ; 

 hind head and ear-coverts purplish black ; throat purple with streaks 

 of green ; breast purplish green, with a broad orange-yellow streak 

 down the shaft of each feather ; back of neck and nape purplish 

 green, streaked down the shafts with rich yellow ; scapulars, wings 

 and tail green ; back and rump light green streaked with yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts, inner webs near the base of tail, and thighs, car- 

 mine ; quills beneath at base yellow tinged on some feathers with 

 carmine ; abdomen, sides, and under tail-coverts green, streaked with 

 yellow intermixed near the thighs with crimson ; beneath the tail 

 carmine, tipped with obscure yellow. 



Length 12"; wings 7" 2'". 



Hab. Aru Islands, d 2 m British Museum. 



Allied to C. scintillala, which has the ends of the tail-feathers 

 acutely pointed, whilo in the Aru species they arc decidedly rounded. 



