67 [Vol. xxvii. 



England. The species had been originally described from 

 a portion of a male example procured by D'Albertis from 

 natives on the upper Fly River. It had been figured in 

 Sharpens ' Monograph of the Birds of Paradise/ vol. ii. 

 pi. xxvi. (1896), as having the throat black, like the allied 

 form, X. aureus (Linn,), found in the Arfak Peninsula of 

 N.W. New Guinea ; but the throat was missing in the 

 imperfect type specimen which was preserved in the Genoa 

 Museum, so that the black coloration of those parts, as 

 shown in the plate, was purely imaginary. This mistake had 

 been corrected by Dr. Van Oort, of the Leiden Museum, 

 who had received two adult males collected by Dr. H. A. 

 Lorentz, procured during his second expedition up the Noord 

 River in Southern Dutch New Guinea. One of these had 

 been compared with the type by Dr. Gestro, who pronounced 

 them to be undoubtedly of the same species [r/. Nova 

 Guinea, ix. Zool. p. 100, pi. iii. (1909)]. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also exhibited a small and brilliantly 

 coloured Parrot from the Upper Mimika River which 

 appeared to be new and which he proposed to describe as 

 follows : — 



Cyclopsittacus godmani, sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to C. occidentalis, Salvad., 

 and C ^/i/^Ai, Wallace, and resembles the latter in having no 

 green spot beneath the eye. It differs from both in having 

 the feathers on the cheeks, sides of the head, and throat 

 narrow and much lengthened, forming a distinct beard of a 

 pale orange-yellow colour, as long as that of C. edwardsi, 

 Oustalet ; a well-defined band across the chest and the sides 

 of the breast verditer-blue ; no trace of scarlet on the sides 

 of the upper breast ; the rest of the underparts grass-green ; 

 and a bright orange-yellow band across the upper mantle, 

 contrasting with the scarlet crown and nape. Iris pale 

 hazel ; orbital skin black ; bill black ; feet pale olive-green. 



Wing 4'65 ; tail (imperfect) 2*2 inches. 



Hab. Upper Mimika River, Southern Dutch New Guinea. 



Type in the British Museum. S • No. 215. Paramau, 



