collected in Dutch New Guinea. 159 



Todopsis bonapartii. 



Todopsis bonapartii Gray ; Sharpe, Cat, iv. p. 281 (1879). 



Todopsis cyanoceplialus bonapartii van Oort, p. 84 (1909) ; 

 Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 499 (1913). 



? Todopsis cyanocephalus dohertyi Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. 

 X. p. 477 (1903). 



a. ? . Mouth of the Mimika River, 8th Dec. 1910. 

 [No. 79, C. H. B. G.I 



b-l. (^ ? et ? imm. Wakatimi, Mimika River, 28th Dec. 

 1910-9th March, 1911. [Nos. 188, 1093, 1094, 1096, 1099, 

 1118, 1119, 1131, C.H.B.G. ; 1530, 1543, G. C. S.] 



m-x. c? ? et (J imm. Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 

 4th Oct,-8th Nov. 1912. \_C.B.K.'] 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet and toes sooty-brown. 



Total length in the flesh 159 mm. ( = 6| inches). 



All the birds in our series belong to this form and not to 

 T. cyanocepliala, which was described by Quoy & Gaimard 

 from Dorei and was figured in the P. Z. S. 1858, pi. cxxxiv. 

 The latter species has the blue on the crown rich cobalt 

 and the mantle light blue, almost verditer-blue, while in 

 T. bonapartii both crown and mantle are purplish-blue. 



The female differs from the female of T. cyanocepliala in 

 having the crown paler and less purplish-blue, but there 

 does not seem to be any other distinction. The female 

 of T. cyanocepliala is well figured by Quoy & Gaimard 

 [Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, pi. v. fig. 4 (1833)]. 



The type of 21 bonapartii, procured by Wallace in the Aru 

 Islands, is preserved in the British Museum ; there are also 

 typical examples of T. cyanocepliala from Dorei from the 

 same source. I should certainly have expected our specimens 

 to belong to the northern form and not to T. bonapartii, 

 which is known to extend as far east as British New Guinea, 

 but it must be noted that its distribution is purely coastal. 

 Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert have recognised another 

 form ( T. c. dohertyi') from Takar, on the northern coast of 

 Dutch New Guinea, based on the female, which is said to 



