FAM. LORIIDA® ID 
4. Glossopsittacus pusillus (Shaw). B. and S 
Pstttacus pusillus Shaw in White’s Journ. Voy. N. S. Wales, p. 262, pl. 48 (1790). Tasmania. 
Glossopstttacus pusillus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 20, p. 71 (1891); Mivart, 
Mon. Lor. pl. 46, f. 2 (1896); Salvadori, Ibis, 1905, p. 422. 
Australia, 
11. GENus HYPOCHARMOSYNA SALVADORI 
Hy pocharmosyna Salvadori,Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.Vol. 20, pp. 12, 72 (1891) (type of the genus Psittacus 
placens Temminck). 
Characters. Point of maxilla long, but not thin; tail-feathers twelve, gradually tapering 
to a point; predominant colour underneath as well as above green; tail-feathers green above 
with the tips yellow, light green, or red; bill red. 
Geographical Distribution. From the Moluccas, through the Papuan Islands to New 
Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the Fiji Islands. 
KEY OF THE SPECIES 
A. Breast with elongated yellow stripes ; male with the inner web of the quills red. . . . .H. WILHELMINA. 
B. No elongated yellow stripes on the breast; no ved on the inner web of the quills. 
a. A yellow band on the underside of the quills. 
a’. Ear-coverts bright blue in the males, not blue, streaked with yellow, or green wm the 
Females. 
a!'. No ved patch on the upper tarl-coverts. 
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b!'". Rump green without any blue. 
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b!'!. A ved patch on the upper tarl-coverts. 
cl". Red patch on the upper tarl-coverts duller; the female with yellow stveaks on 
the eay-coverts. . . . ; ee gs ce es on fe en A eee UBRON OpACh At 
d'". Red patch on the upper tatl-coverts brighter; the female with bright green . 
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b!. Ear-coverts not blue, but green; anterior edge of cheeks and upper part of throat red 1. RUBRIGULARIS. 
b. No yellow band on the underside of the quills which ave entirely dusky. 
* cl. Thighs ved; face and throat red ; the latter edged with a yellow navrow band below. 1. AUREOCINCTA. 
d', Thighs green. 
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d"'. Crown not blue. 
e'. Very little ved on the feathers at the base of the bill. 
e!, No yellow tips to the central tatl-feathers . . . . . ... . . EL. MESKI. 
4. Central tail-feathers with yellow tips. . . . . . . . . . . EL. PALMARUM. 
f'". No red colour on the feathers atthe baseofthelill . . . . . . . . HL. PYGM#A. 
1. Hypocharmosyna wilhelminz (Meyer) (Plate 5, Figs. 2, 3). N. W. and S. E. New 
Trichoglossus wilhelminae Meyer, Journ, f. Orn. 1874, p. 56. Guinea. 
Hypocharmosyna wilhelminae Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 10, }). 73 (1891); 
Mivart, Mon. Lor. pl. 48 (1896); Salvadori, Ibis, 1905, p. 422. 
