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3. TRICHOGLOSSUS C Y ANOGR AMMUS. 



(THE GREEN-NAPED LOtti.) 

 [Plate XXX. Fig. 1.] 



Red-breasted Parrot. Lath. Syn. i. p. 212 (1781). 



Perruche d'Amboina, D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 61. 



La Perruche a face blene, Buifon, Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 150 (1779). 



La Perruche a tete bleue, Levaill. Perr. pi. 25 (1801). 



Psittaca Amboinensis varla, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 364 (1760}. 



Psittacus hcematodus, Bodcl. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 4 (1783). 



Psittacus capistratus (var), Mull. Verb. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 107, 108 (1839-44}. 



Australasia novce-hollandice, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 210 (1831). 



Trichoglossus hcematodus, Jardine & Selby, 111. Orn. iii. pi. Ill (1825-39). 



Trichoglossus hcematotus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 109 (1864). 



Trichoglossus capistratus (var.), G. P. Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 194. 



Trichoglossus nigrogularis (var.), G. P. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 159. 



Trichoglossus cyanogrammus , "Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 554 (1832) ; Finscb, Papag. ii. 



p. 830 (partim) (1868) ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 760 (1875), viii. p. 371 



(1876), x. pp. 35 & 112 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 279 (1880) ; Bchnw. Vogelbild. 



t. viii. fig. 1 (1878-83) ; Salvadori, Mem. P. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 172 (1889) ; id. 



Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 51 (1891). 



Quills underneath with a yellow band towards the base ; a greenish-yellow band on the nape ; middle of 

 the abdomen green ; breast-feathers red, not tinged with yellow towards the edges ; head not entirely 

 blue ; dark cross-bands on the breast broad and conspicuous. 



Habitat. Ceram, Amboyna, Bouru, Goram, Salwatty, Batanta, Waigiou, Miosnom, Jobie, and Northern and 

 Western New Guinea. 



This species has a wide range, but it has not yet, so far as we can ascertain, been found iu 

 Guebe. 



In various parts of its wide habitat it is very common. It frequents (we learn from 

 Salvadori) the smaller branches of coppices and the tops of low trees, and nourishes itself on 

 Casuarina seeds, fruit, and nectar. It is a quarrelsome and noisy bird. 



As in the two preceding species, the back, wings, and tail are green, and, as in T.forsteni, 

 the forehead is blue and the vertex greenish ; the cheeks are blue and the occiput, ear-coverts, 

 and throat blackish purple; there is a very distinctly marked yellowish-green band on the 

 nape, but the feathers which form the collar have a red band in their middle part, as have 



