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



No. 131, a male, is a curious variation : nearly all tbe 

 primary quills are white with black shafts, and most of the 

 secondary quills and tail-feathers, as well as numerous 

 feathers scattered over the back and wing-coverts, are pale 

 yellow. 



This subspecies was not represented in the British 

 Museum. 



" This little Parrot occurred sparingly everywhere and 

 was always seen in pairs. The Dyak collector Chunggat 

 informed me that it was quite plentiful near the coast when 

 he was there in November and December 1910. 



" It is not a very active bird, and wlien disturbed only flies 

 a very short distance." — C. H. B. G. 



Family PSITTACID^. 



Solenoglossus aterrimus goliath. 



Count Salvador! in a footnote (Cat. xx. p. 102) states 

 that Solenoglossus Ranzani, Elem. di Zool. iii. pt. 2, p. 18 

 (1821) has priority over Microglossus Vieill. Grab des Ois. i. 

 pt. 2, p. 47, pi. 50 (1821-23). He does not, however, use 

 the former name, as " it conveys quite a false idea of the 

 structure of the tongue.'^ Page 47 appeared in Livr. 10 & 

 11, published on 2nd Feb. 1822 {fide C. D. Sherborn). 



Psittacus goliath Kuhl, Consp. Psittacorum, p. 92 (1820). 

 [Type-locality, East Indies = New Gruinea, mihi.'] 



Microglossus aterrimus (Gmel.) ; Salvad. Cat. xx. p. 103 

 (1891) [part.] ; van Oort, p. 70 (1909). 



Microglossus aterrimus stenolophus van Oort, Notes, xxxiii. 

 p, 240 (1911). [Humboldt Bay & Lake Sentani]. 



Solenoglossus aterrimus Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 485 

 (1913). 



. Wakatimi, Mimika River, 1st Jan. 1911. [No. 

 . //. B. G.] 



. Lower Mimika, Feb. 1910. [W. G.] 

 (^ . Parimau, Mimika River, 15th Sept. & 3rd Oct. 

 [Nos. 199, 298, C. H. B, G.'] 



S ? . Wataikwa River, 21st Oct 1910. [Nos. 1407 

 1408, G. C. SA 



a. 



? 



207, 



C. 



h. 



? 



c, 



d. 



1910. 



e, 



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