160 NASITERNIN^. 



[Kordo is also the name of the island better known as Soek, the 

 more northern of the three marked in Rosenberg's map as " Schouten- 

 Eilanden, Groote Geelvink Baai." — G. D. R.] 



Nasiterna geelvinkiana, Schleg. 



Nasiterna pygmaa geelvinkiana, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdschi-. voor de DierkundCj vol. iv. 



(1871) p. 7. 

 Nasiterna geelvinkiana, ScUeg. Mus. Pays-Bas, 11" livraison; Re^Tie de la Collection des 



Perroquets etc. (Mai 1874), p. 71. 



Male. — Feathers on the front, forehead, and fore parts of cheeks brown, 

 with narrow apical margins of light brown ; crown of the head indigo blue ; 

 hinder part of cheeks and below the ear-coverts obscure brown, the apical 

 margins washed narrowly with blue ; occiput, temporal region, and upper 

 surface dark grass-green ; upper wing-coverts black along the shafts ; quills 

 dull black, primaries with a narrow margin of green along the outer web ; 

 secondaries green on the whole outer web, base of the inner web changing 

 into pale olive-yellow ; small under wing-coverts yellow, the greater ones 

 blackish grey ; underparts of body olive-yellow ; under tail-coverts distinct 

 dark yellow ; flanks and thighs grass-green ; two middle tail-feathers deep 

 sea-blue, with a small patch of black near the apical portion, the remaining 

 tail-feathers black, on the outer web with a green, on the inner w^eb with 

 a yellow end, which becomes broader on the outer feathers ; bill greyish 

 black, culmen and ridge of mandible lighter ; feet grey-brown. 



The female differs in having the vertex dark olive-brown, the sides of 

 head and chin being dirty olive-brown, the under surface, instead of yellow, 

 being olive-green, the two middle tail-feathers uniform dark sea-blue ; bill 

 pale hornish brow^n, with dark tip. 



CH'ca 

 circa 



Long. tot. 



al. 



eaud. 



culm. 



alt. rostr. 



tars. 



dig. ext. 



ant. 



in. lin. 



in. lin. 



lin. 



lin. 



lin. 



lin. 



lin. 





3 2 



2 li 



12| 



3 



4i 



3i 



5* 



(English) 



millim. 



millim. 



miUim. 



millim. 



millim. 



millim. 



miUim, 





80 



54 



27 



t 



10 



7-5 



12 



(French> 



