TRICHOGLOSSUS MUSSCHENBROEEII 



[Von Rosenberg). 



By Dr. OTTO FINSCH, C.M.Z.S. 



(Plate XLIV.; 



Nanodes musschenbroekii, Rosenb. in litt., Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsclir. v. d. Dirkunde^ vol. iv. (1871) 

 p. 34; id. Hevue Mus. des P.-B. Psittaci, 1874, p. 52. 



Figura nulla ! 



Male. — Upper surface and sides of neck dark grass-green ; front and forehead 

 light grass -green, margin of front runs into yellowish green ; vertex, occiput, 

 and nape yellowish olive-brown, with olive-yellow shaft-stripes on the 

 vertex ; lores greenish yellow ; cheeks grass -green, with lighter yellowish- 

 green narrow shaft-stripes ; throat and crop, and a broad longitudinal area 

 along breast and vent, splendid scarlet-red ; sides yellowish grass-green, the 

 under tail-coverts lighter, with the pale red of the base somewhat apparent ; 

 lower wing-coverts, axillaries, and the inner w^eb of the quills to about the 

 apical third bright cinnabar-red ; outer web of quills dark green ; four middle 

 tail-feathers dark grass -green, the remainder only on the outer web, on the 

 inner scarlet, broadly tipped with yellow ; bill yellow, in the living bird 

 reddish orange ; feet blackish, alive yellowish flesh-coloured ; eye citron- 

 yellow. 



The female diff^ers only in having the feathers of the throat and crop 

 grass-green, with pale cinnabar-red apical margins, giving these parts a 

 somewhat undulated appearance. 



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