PAM. LORIIDA: 3 
g! '' The two middle tail-feathers not much longer than the lateral ones ; 
the primaries not abruptly attenuated towards the tips . 
k'"". The two middle tail-feathers generally much longer than the lateral 
ones and very narrow towards the tips; the primaries, especially the 
Jurst 4 or 5, abruptly attenuated towards the tips : 
Il. Tail-feathers 14; point of the maxilla very long and thin ; bill black . 
12. Genus CHARMOSYNOPSIS. 
. 13. Genus CHARMOSYNA. 
. 14. Genus OREOPSITTACUS. 
I. GENUS CHALCOPSITTACUS BONAPARTE 
Chalcopsitta Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. Vol. 1, p. 3 (1849) (type of the genus Psittacus ater Scopoli). 
Chalcopsittacus Salvadon, Ann. Mus. Stor. Nat. Genova, Vol. g, p. 15 (1876) (momen emend.). 
Characters. Tail-feathers twelve; tail moderate, with the two middle tail-feathers longer 
than the lateral ones, all rather broad and rounded at the tip; bill black like the cere and the 
‘naked chin. 
Geographical Distribution. The known forms are confined to the Papuan Islands. 
Seven forms are included in this genus, but one (C. sfavorini) is rather doubtful. 
C. bernsteini and C. insignis are subspecies of C. ater, and C. chloropterus is a subspecies of 
C. scintillatus. 
KEY OF THE SPECIES (2) 
1. No green colour whatever. 
a. Black, more or less purple. 
al. Abdomen like the breast black. 
al’. Quills with no ved on the inner web. 
all’, Tibia black . 
C. ATER. 
bl". Tibia dark ved . : C. BERNSTEINI (2). 
b!’. Quills with the base of the inner webred . C. INSIGNIS. 
b'. Abdomen ved . C. sravorint (?). 
b. Oltve-brown ; forehead, a band from the lores encircling the throat, tibie and under wing- 
coverts orange-yellow. : 
: RSS cS se atc pk Noha Gop cn ok ane a C. DUYVENBODEI. 
Il. Green, with shaft-streaks green and yellow ; forehead (in the adult bird) and tibia red : 
c'. Under wing-coverts and axillarics ved ; shaft-streaks on the hind-neck mostly ovange- 
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d’. Under wing-coverts and axillaries mostly green and ved, sometimes entively green ; 
SHS NEM hSNOM WEN LEC MOSTLy NET EeID 2 ee eee Ce CHUOROPTERUS: 
1. Chalcopsittacus ater (Scopoll). Western New Guinea, 
Psittacus ater Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. Vol. 2, p. 87, n° 29 (1786)(ex Sonnerat.). from Dorei-Hum and 
Chalcopsittacus ater Salvadori, cf. Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 20, p. 13 (1891); Has to Sorong, Sal- 
Mivart, Mon. Lor. pl. 1 (1896); Salvadori, Ibis, 1905, p. 406. watty, Batanta. 
(1) Chalcopsitta spectabilis Van Oort, Not. Leyd. Mus. Vol. 30, p. 127 (1908) from Mambrioe (N. W. New Guinea) 
described from a single specimen in the Leyden Museum, appears intermediate between C. insignis or C. berusteint and 
C. scintillatus ; possibly an hybrid. 
(2) C. bernsteint has sometimes a red patch, or a mere indication of it, on the inner web of the quills. 
