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



Neopsittacns muschenbroeki alpinus. (PI. VI. fig. 1.) 



Neopsittacus muscJienhroeki alpinus Ogil vie- Gran t^ Bull. 

 B. 0. 0. XXXV. p. 12 (1914). 



a-c. ^ ? . Camp 11, Utakwa River, 8000 ft., 6th-9tli Feb. 

 1913. [C B. K.'\ \_Types of the subspecies. '\ 



Adult male and female. Similar to N. muscJienhroeki, but 

 much smaller, and with a conspicuously smaller bill. They 

 are also distinguished by having the crovi^n of the head and 

 nape dark green like the rest of the vipperparts, with scarcely 

 a trace of lighter green or yellowish shaft-streaks; the 

 throat and sides of the body dark green instead of yellowish- 

 green; the chest and upper breast orange-red, the lower 

 breast and belly scarlet ; in iV. muscJienhroeki these parts are 

 uniform scarlet ; the tail-feathers dark green to the tip, the 

 outer pairs with the greater part of the inner web red 

 instead of being widely tipped with orange-yellow ; under 

 surface of the tail dark olive-green instead of yellow or 

 orange-yellow. 



Upper mandible blood-red, tip yellow ; lower mandible 

 yellow; feet black. 



IS- Total lengtli 190 mm. Wing 105. Tail 89 (in moult). 

 2 $ . „ 180, 188 mm. „ 99, 103. „ 84 (in moult), 95. 



The examples of this interesting alpine form were col- 

 lected by the Dyak Chunggat at Camp 11, Utakwa River, 

 8000 ft., between the 6th and 9th of February, 1913. The 

 orange breast is the character which chiefly distinguishes it 

 from iV. m. pullicauda Hartert [cf N. Z. iii. p. 17 (1896)], 

 the alpine representative of iV. muscJienhroeJci in the high- 

 lands of British New Guinea. 



That this character is not due to wear or fading is proved 

 by the fact that the specimens described are in moult and 

 many of the orange-red breast-feathers are still in sheath. 



Among a collection of birds made by Mr. Walter Good- 

 fellow in the Owen Stanley Mountains and presented to the 

 British Museum by Mr. E. J. Brook, there is an adult female 

 example of iV. m. pullicauda procured at Bagutana Camp, 

 8000 ft. It is easily distinguished from N. m. alpinus by 



