62 TRICHOGLOSSUS MUSSCHENBROEKII. 





Long. al. 



rectr. intern. 



rectr. extern. 



culm. 



Alt. rostr, 





in. lin. 



in. lin. 



in. lin. 



lin. 



lin. 



Male . . 



. 3 11 



3 4 



1 10 



Gi 



7 



Female . 



. 3 9 



2 11 



1 7 



6 



H 



This wonderful brush-tongued Parrot is a discovery of the well-known 

 Dutch traveller. Baron von Rosenberg, who sent over three specimens to the 

 Leyden Museum from New Guinea, but without stating the exact locality. 



Through the zealous and fortunate German traveller, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 we learn that Trichoglossus musschenbroekii is one of the famous species 

 inhabiting the Arfak mountains, on the north-western portion of New 

 Guinea. Dr. Meyer found these birds, although rarely, near Hattam, at an 

 elevation of 3500 feet, and collected a few specimens. Nothing is known of 

 the habits of this species, which, by its peculiarity, makes any comparison 

 unnecessary. 



\_Note. — The Plate is of a fine male bird in my own collection^ from the locality mentioned 

 above. 



The correct spelling of the name is difficult. Professor H. Schlegel calls it muschenbroekii ; but 

 as '^Mr. S. C. T. W, van Musschenbroek^ Assistant Resident van Buitenzorg/'' appears in the 

 Almanac of the Zoological Society of Amsterdam for 1873_, perhaps the latter is rights particularly 

 as Mr. Gould says (^ Birds of New Guinea/ part ii.) that he is the Dutch Resident at Ternate. 



The same gentleman is mentioned as discovering and describing Diphyllodes gulielmi III., the 

 new Bird of Paradise^ in Eastern W^aigiou (P. Z. S. 1875^ pp. 30;, 31). 



The synonymy of this species is at present short ; it has not arrived at the dignity of that of the 

 Yellow-browed Warbler {Phylloscopus super ciliosus), viz. two and a half quarto pages. It is one of 

 the eight Psittaci mentioned by Mr. P. L. Sclater as coming from New Gruinea (P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 697).— Editor of O. M.] 



