collected in Dutclt New Guinea. 233 



Adult male. Bill blood- red ; cere yellow; feet red- 

 brown. 



A good figure o£ Cliarmosyna stellce will be found in 

 Mivart [e/. Monogr. Loriidse, p. 179, pi. Iviii. (1896)]. 



The Lories collected by the Wollaston Expedition agree 

 with the birds described from Mt. Goliath in having the 

 longer upper tail-coverts dull green. 



This subspecies is new to the British Museum. 



Charmosyna josephinse. 



Cliarmosyna josepliime (Finsch) ; Salvad, Cat. xx. p. 84 

 (1891) ; Mivart, Monogr. Loriidge, p. 181, pi. lix. (1896) ; 

 van Oort, p. 75 (1909) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 484 

 (1913). 



a. ? [c?] imm. Wataikwa River, 26th Oct. 1910. 

 [No. 1441, Gy C. S.'] 



b-f. S ? . Iwaka River, 28th Jan.-lOth Feb. 1911. 

 fNos. 225, 230, 937, 1010, C. H. B. G.'\ 



Adult male and female. Iris bright yellow ; bill orange- 

 red ; feet yellow-ochre. 



Young male. Iris yellowish-buff ; bill orange-red ; feet 

 dull orange. 



The sex of the young example (a) has been determined by 

 Mr. Shortridge as " female," but this is almost certainly an 

 error, for the new feathers on the lower back are mostly 

 scarlet, only a few being yellow. It has the occipital patch 

 green mixed with dark blue, instead of uniform purplish- 

 blue. The middle of the breast is mostly dark green, as are 

 also the sides of the belly and flanks, instead of purplish- 

 black, and the middle pair of tail-feathers have the outer 

 half of the outer web green instead of being entirely 

 dull red. 



"This Lory is strictly a species of the mountains and 

 cannot be considered common. It frequents the flower- 

 ing trees in company with other small Parroquets." — 

 C. 11. B. G. 



