228 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



T. c. nigrogularis, o£ which the British Museum possesses 

 the type from the Aru Islands and a fine series recently col- 

 lected by Mr. W. Goodfellow, ranges to the Kei Islands, and 

 thence eastwards across Southern New Guinea to the Fly 

 River. It has the general colour o£ the breast more orange- 

 scarlet and the bands, formed by the dark edges of the 

 feathers, very narrow ; in T. cyanogrammus the general 

 colour of the breast is of a more pinkish-scarlet and the 

 bands are wider. In both these forms, T. cyanogrammux 

 and T. c. nigrogularis, the ear-coverts are blue, while in 

 T. c. massena, inhabiting South-east New Guinea and other 

 islands eastwards to the New Hebrides, the ear-coverts are 

 dark green or distinctly washed with that colour^ and the na])e 

 is maroon, a very distinctive character. In other respects 

 T. c. massena resembles T. c. nigrogularis, having the breast 

 oranoe-red and the bands narrower. I cannot see what 

 reasons the authors quoted above can have had for regarding 

 T. cyanogrammus as a subspecies of T. hcematodus, which 

 represents quite another section of the genus Triclioglossus. 



The very remarkable specimen procured by Wallace in 

 the Aru Islands, and described as T. coccineifrons by G. R. 

 Gray, is perhaps a hybrid, as Count Salvadori has suggested, 

 but not between T. nigrogularis and Chalcopsittacus scintil- 

 latus. The latter is a very different bird in every respect, 

 and its only point of resemblance with T. coccineifrons is its 

 crimson-red forehead. It may possibly be a mere colour- 

 variation of T. c. nigrogularis, as has been suggested by 

 Finsch, and it is evidently an immature bird as stated 

 by him. T. coccineifrons h well figured byMivart [Monogr. 

 . Loriidse, p. 101, pi' xxxi. fig. 2 (1896)] . 



" The Green-naped Lory was common around Wakatimi 

 and was met with on the coast in small flocks, but was not 

 very plentiful around Parimuu or in the mountains. It is a 

 very active bird and has a swift flight. Its call-note is a 

 single short sharp note, and when handled or wounded 

 it gives vent to the usual harsh Parrot-like scream," — 

 C. II. B. G. 



