Rees 
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Austr. Av. Ree. vol. ii. p. 62 (1913) Mr. Mathews separates 
the larger desmaresti group fromthe smaller diophthalma group 
of species, creating for the latter the genus MJanopsitta with 
covent Gld. as the type. This genus he subsequently sank 
again (List Austr. Birds 1913, p. "121) and adopted Opopsitta 
Sel. for the whole genus as hitherto defined. Opopsitta 
Sel. (P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 227) with diophthalma as type must, 
therefore, be adopted for Cyclopsitta auct. nec Reichenbach. 
At present, of the desmaresti group we know 7 forms: 
salvadorii Oust., edwardsi Oust., desmaresti Garn., occiden- 
talis Salvad., cervicalis Salv. & D’Alb., blythi Wall., and 
godmani Grant. Of these, salvadorii and edwardsi from N. 
and N.E. New Guinea are very distinct from desmaresti and 
do not come within the scope of these notes. Taking des- 
marestt as the typical species of this group, occidentalis and 
blythi are clearly only subspecies of desmaresti, occidentalis 
differing only in the orange-yellow, not green, cheeks and 
ear-coverts, and dlythi in its orange-yellow cheeks and ear- 
coverts and absence of the infra-ocular blue patch. 0. des- 
marestt occurs at Dorey, Arfak Peninsula, and S.W. New 
Guinea ; occidentalis occurs in Salwatti and Batanta, and is 
said also (conf. Salvad. Cat. B. xx. p. 92) to occur on the 
N.W. coast of New Guinea ; and blythi is confined to Mysol. 
But on coming to the forms cervicalis and godmani the 
real crux of the question presents itself. In 1875 Messrs. 
Salvadori and D’Albertis described Cyclopsittacus cervicalis 
from Mt. Epia, S.H. New Guinea (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
vol. vii. p. 811), and in the Latin diagnosis they distinctly 
state “‘ cervice tota saturate coerulea,” 7. ¢., the whole occiput 
and hind-neck deep blue. In vol. xiv. of the same work 
these gentlemen give a catalogue of the birds collected by 
Signor D’Albertis on the Fly River, and on pp. 31-834 give 
a list and description of 29 specimens showing every grada- 
tion from the originally described type of cervicalis with 
orange-red cheeks and ear-coverts and dark blue occiput 
and hind-neck, to a bird with yellow cheeks and ear-coverts, 
an orange-red occiput and broad yellow band on hind-neck. 
Messrs. Salvadori and D’Albertis came to the conclusion 
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