collected in Dutch New Guinea. 247 



Adult male. Iris orange or fiery-red ; orbital skin dark slate- 

 colour; upper mandible scarlet, tipped with yellow, lower 

 mandible black ; feet dark olive-gi-een or black. 



Adult female. Iris pale yellow ; bill and feet black. 



The fully adult male has the outer pairs of tail-feathers 

 almost entirely purplish-blue ; in young birds (Nos. 58 & 

 764) they are more pointed and mostly dark green, only a 

 patch near the end of the outer web being blue ; the middle 

 pairs are also tipped with red, as in the younger birds noted 

 by Dr. van Oort. 



A young female (No. 862) has some of the tail-feathers 

 green towards the base^ while in the adult all the tail-feathers 

 have the basal two-thirds dark red-rmaroon, thouorh in some 

 specimens there is a trace of green on the outer web of the 

 outer pair. 



" The Hed-sided Eclectus is quite a common species 

 everywhere, especially near the coast. Large numbers 

 came every night to roost in the swamps at the back of 

 our camp at Wakatimi. Though numbers congregated to 

 roost in one spot, they arrived in small lots of two or three, 

 or, at the most, six together, and these were the usual 

 number seen together throughout the country. It has a 

 loud cry and a swift straight flight." — C. H. B. G. ' 



GeoflQrojnis aruensis. 



Geoffroyus aruensis (Gray) ; Salvad. Cat. xx. p. 404 (1891). 

 Geoffroyus personatus aruensis van Oort, p. 72 (1909) ; 

 Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 486 (1913). 



a-d. ^ ? et ? juv. Mouth of the Mimika River, 10th- 

 16th Dec. 1910 & 23rd March, 1911. [Nos. 98, 157, 158, 

 1258, C.H.B.G.] 



e-g. $ ? . Wakatimi, Mimika River, 1st Jan. & 6th-28th 

 March, 1911. [Nos. 211, 1107, 1126, C.H.B. G.] 



h-u. $ ? . Parimau, Mimika River, 4th Sept.-26th Dec. 

 1910. [Nos. 197, 234, 249, 501, 552, 571, 627, Q2^, 651, 

 753, 772, 830, 831, C. H. B. G.'] 



v-z. ^ ? . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 26th Nov.-26th 

 Dec. \C.B.K.] 



