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



a'. S- Camp 1, Setakwa River, 700 ft., 20th Nov. 1912. 

 [C.B.K.-] 



Adult male. Iris yellow ; upper mandible scarlet, yellow at 

 the tip, lower mandible horn-brown, cere olive-brown ; feet 

 dull olive. 



Adult female. Iris yellow ; both mandibles dark horn- 

 brown, cere dark olive ; feet olive-green. 



A young female (No. 1258) has the feathers in front of 

 the dye and on the sides of the head and cheeks light brown 

 tinged with greenish ; the tail bright yellowish-green with 

 chestnut and green plumes on the tips of the shafts ; the 

 upper tail-coverts similar, and the rest of the plumage, 

 iricluditig the crown, dark green, but with traces of the 

 reddish-brown patch on the least wing-coverts, some being 

 centred with that colour. Iris greyish-white ; orbital skiii 

 yellowish ; bill dark yellow, tip and nostrils paler ; feet and 

 toes pale olive-green. 



"This Red-faced Parrot is a tolerably common species and 

 always to be seen in pairs. It is a very tame and confiding 

 bird, and its movements and flight are rather heavy. The 

 call is a very clear^ sharp, single note."— C. H. B. G. 



*Geoffroyus pucherani. 



Geoffroyus pucherani Bonap. ; Salvad. Cat, xx. p. 407 

 (1891). 



Gaoffroyus per sonatus pucherani van Oort, p. 72 (1909), 



A male of this Parrot was procured at Etna Bay. 



Geoffroyus simplex. 



Geoffroyus simplex (Meyer) ; Grohld, B. New Guinea, v, 

 pi. 29 (1877) ; Salvad. Cat. xx. p. 413 (1891) ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, P. & P. p. 289 (1912); id. Ibis^ 1913, p. 100; 

 Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 48G (1913). 



a,}). S- Iwaka River, 7th & 8th Feb. 1911. [Nos. 228, 

 228 a, C.H.B, G.'] 



Iris, outer ring pale Naples yellow, innpr ring gl-een ; bill 

 jalack ; feet pale olive. 



