.45 [Vol. xxvii. 



Type iu the Tring- Museum: c^ . No. 2380. Tungei Bark, 

 Kohrur, Aru Islands, 27. viii. 00. Heinricli Iviihn coll. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited and described 

 examples of two new Parrots from Dutch New Guinea as 

 follows : — 



Charmosynopsis multistrtatAj sp. n. 



Adult male. Fore-part of the crown green, forehead and a 

 short line above the eyes yellowish, hinder part of the crown 

 aud nape brown, hind-neck with orange-yellow stripes; rest 

 of the upperparts green. Tail green, tips of the rectrices dull 

 yellow, the middle pair greenish-brown. Quills dull black, 

 outer webs of the secondaries and wing-coverts green, those 

 of the primaries edged with green. Sides of the head and 

 throat yellowish-green. Sides of the neck and underparts with 

 sharply defined, bright greenish-yellow stripes. Middle of 

 the vent and under tail-coverts red ; longer and lateral under 

 tail-coverts green, red at the base. Under surface of the tail 

 dull olive-yellow. "^Iris dull red; upper mandible slaty- 

 blue, tip orange, lower mandible yellowish-red, base bluish- 

 slate-colour ; feet slate-blue.^^ Wing 100 (the first three 

 primaries abruptly attenuated at the tip) ; tail : middle 

 rectrices 104, lateral pair 42 ; culmen from the end of the 

 cere in a straight line 16'5 mm. 



Hab. Upper " Letekwa"' or Oetakwa River. 



Type in the Tring Museum : S • No. 4252. Oetakwa 

 River, 2. vii. 10. A. S. Meek coll. 



Obs. I do not recognize Salvadori's genus Hypocharmosyna, 

 as it is founded on colour-differences only. 



Nasiterna pygm^a viridipectus, subsp. n. 



Two specimens of a small Nasiterna, marked as male and 

 female, but perhaps both females, are evidently closely allied 

 to N. p. pygmcea, but differ in having the underside grass- 

 green, not yellowish-green, the cheeks of a darker brown, 

 and the sides of the head and neck dark green, instead of 

 brownish-yellow. Wing about 92 mm. 



Bab. Upper " Letekwa" or Oetakwa River. 



