BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA. 149 



TRICHOCtLOSSUS PULCHELLUS [G. R. Gray). 



By Dr. OTTO FINSCH, Hon. Memb. B.O.U. 



Charmosyna pulchella, G. R. Gray, List of Birds Brit. Mus., part 3, sect 3. Psittacidse, 1859, p. 103 



(female) . 

 Charmosyna pectoralis, Rosenberg, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1863, p. 64 (descript.) ; id. Natuurk. 



Tijdschr. voor Nederl. Ind. 1863, p. 144 (descl*. inacc.) ; id. Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, 



p. 112 (descr. inacc). 

 Charmosyna iiulchdla, Wall. P. Z. S. Lond. 1864, p. 392 (sine descr.). 

 Eos pulchella, Sclileg. Dierentuin (1864), p. 69 (sine descr.). 



Trichoglossus pulchellus , Finsch, Papageien, ii. (1868) p. 877 (descr. female and young male). 

 Charmosyna pulchella, Sclat. P. Z. S. Lond. 1874, p. 697 (Atam). 

 Trichoglossus pulchellus, A. B. Meyer, Sitzb. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. Band Ixix. (1874) p. 76 



(male) . 

 Nanodes pulchellus, Schleg. (nee Vig. & Horsf.), Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, livr. xi. (1874) p. 53. 



Male. — Head and the whole under surface, including the under tail-coverts, 

 beautiful dark carmine-red ; the feathers on the breast with narrow shaft- 

 stripes of bright yellow ; occiput and nape covered by a longitudinal patch 

 of a dark violet-black ; upper parts and wings dark grass-green, the quills 

 black on the inner web ; middle part of rump and upper tail-coverts also 

 green, but lighter ; sides of rump and thighs vivid carmine-red, each feather 

 of these parts with a concealed narrow yellow cross line on the basal portion ; 

 flanks also vivid red, some of the longest feathers with narrow dark yellow 

 shaft-stripes ; inner part of tibia violet-black ; under wing-coverts red, the 

 larger ones dull blackish ; the two middle tail-feathers dark olive-green at 

 the basal portion, otherwise dark red, with yellow tips ; the remaining tail- 

 feathers are yellow on the apical half, green on the outer web, and red on the 

 basal half of the inner web, having the red bordered by a blackish marginal 



