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have the same bluish forehead, but the barred markings on 

 the occiput and hind-neck are reddish-chestnut and black 

 instead of mostly orange-yellow and black. The female 

 of P. madaraszi is strikingly different from those of the 

 other two species of the genus Psittacella, having the under- 

 parts uniform green. 



Loriculus aurantiifrons meeki. 



Loriculus aurantiifrons Salvad. (nee Schleg.) Cat. xx. 

 p. 537 (1891). 



Loriculus aurantiifrons meeJci Hartert, N. Z. ii. p. 62 

 (1895) [Fergusson ' L] ; viii. p. 88 (1901) [S.E. New 

 Gruinea] . 



Loriculus aurantiifrons bataVOrum Stresemann, J. f. 0. 

 1913, p. 602 [Utakwa River, 3000 ft.] ; Roths. & Hartert, 

 N. Z. XX. p. 488 (1913) [Setakwa R. & Utakwa R., 2000- 

 3000 ft.]. 



a-c. (J ? . Parimau, Mimika River, 8th Nov. & 3rd Dec. 

 1910. [Nos 1483, G. C.S.; & 485, 638, C.B.B. G.] 



d. <$ . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 4th Nov. 1912. 

 \C.B.K.'\ 



Iris cream-coloui" in the male, dark brown in the female ; 

 bill black ; feet yellow-ochre or olive. 



L. a. meeki is separable from L. aurantiifrons Schleg. 

 from Misol as a slightly larger race with a smaller bill, the 

 male having the patch on the forehead yellower and less 

 extensive, while the female has no red at the base of the 

 feathers of the forehead. I cannot see how L> a. hatavorum 

 Stresemann can be maintained. Our birds from the Mimika 

 River and Setakwa River differ in no way from specimens 

 from South-east New Guinea and Fergusson Island, the 

 type-locality of L. a. meeki. 



I have examined the type-specimens of L. a. hatavorum 

 in the Tring Museum from the Utakwa River and Setakwa 

 River, and, as will be seen by the measurements given below, 

 the differences in size, which is their only claim to distinction, 

 are trifling. Specimens examined measure as follows :— 



