238 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant o??, Birds 



scarlet nape. Iris pale hazel ; orbilal skin black ; bill black ; 

 feet pale olive-green. 



Total length about 200 mm. ; wing 113-115 ; tail 56-65. 



Immature males differ from the adult in lacking the 

 yellow band across the upper mantle^ which is green like 

 the rest of the upperparts ; the long orange-yellow ear- 

 coverts and feathers forming the beard are less developed, 

 and the verditer-blue feathers of the chest and green feathers 

 of the breast are outlined by dusky margins. Iris grey ; 

 upper mandible black, sides whitish; lower mandible black, 

 whitish below ; feet greyish-white, scales tinged with dull 

 brown. 



The female is not represented in the present collections, 

 but A. S. Meek obtained four on the Island River. These, 

 like the young males, have no yellow band across the 

 mantle. 



I may here remark that the British Museum has recently 

 received three fine adult male examples of C. edwardsi pro- 

 cured by Mr. Walter Groodfellow at Humboldt Bay. The 

 species was pi'eviously represented by a single female 

 example. It is figured by Count Salvadori in Wytsman's 

 * Genera Avium, Psittaci,' pt. xii. p. 4, pi. ii. fig. 4 (1910). 



The specimen figured is the c? type of the species. 



Cyclopsittacus diophthalmus. 



Cydopsittacus diophthalmus (Hombr. & Jacq.) ; Salvad. Cat. 

 XX. p. 95 (1891). 



a. c? vix ad. Parimau, Mimika River, 27th Sept. 1910. 

 [No. 266, C. H. B. G.] 



This specimen seems to be a typical example of C. dio- 

 phthalmus, which was described from a bird procured on the 

 south coast of New Guinea, All the specimens in the British 

 Museum are from Misol and Salawatti. The present speci- 

 men, which I believe to be a not quite adult male, has no 

 yellow band bordering posteriorly the red on the crown. 



C. d. coccinneifrons Sharpe, from the Astrolabe Mountains, 

 of which the British Museum now possesses six examples 

 including the type-specimen, appears to me to be easily 



