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Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described some new 

 species of birds, mostly discovered by Mr. Walter Goodfellow 

 on Mt. Apo, a very high volcano in Southern Mindanao. The 

 collection made by Mr. Goodfellow was only small, because 

 his principal object during the ascent of Apo was to obtain 

 specimens of living birds, but in the small collection there 

 were some most remarkable new forms. A full account of 

 the collection would be given elsewhere and it was hoped that 

 more material from Mindanao would come to Tring shortly. 

 The new forms were as follows : — 



Trichoglossus joiinstoni;e, n. sp. 



Obs. This curious new Parrot resembles in its breast- 

 markings the Celebesian Psitteuteles meyeri very closely, but 

 the coloration of the head is more like that of Ptilosclera 

 versicolor. It would connect the genera Psitteuteles and 

 Ptilosclera, which are said to differ by their coloration only. 

 I cannot see that they can be separated, nor can I see the 

 possibility of separating Trichoglossus and Psitteuteles generic- 

 ally. In fact the " type " of the genus Psitteuteles is as 

 typical a Trichoglossus as I can imagine, though T. meyeri, 

 T. flavoviridis, and T. chlorolepidotus differ more by the 

 coloration of the underside. 



<$ ? ad. Forehead dark rosy red, in the male obscured by 

 greenish tips to the feathers. Narrow loral line and broad 

 line from the eyes backwards meeting (in the female indis- 

 tinctly) on the nape dark brownish purple (not quite as dark 

 as "prune-purple," Ridgway's pi. viii. fig. 1, Nomencl. Col.). 

 Rest of crown and whole upper surface grass-green, the 

 inner webs of the remiges and the first primary on both webs 

 black, all, with the exception of the first three, with a large 

 sulphur - yellow patch in the middle of the inner webs. 

 Feathers round the mandible to the ear-coverts dark rose- 

 red, those towards the ear-coverts with yellowish-green tips. 

 Feathers of under surface dull sulphur-yellow, with grey bases 

 and broad green tips; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 more greenish yellow, the green tips less distinct. Under 

 wing-coverts yellowish green, those near the edge of the wing 



