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7. TRICHOGLOSSUS FLAVICANS. 



(THE OLIVE -GREEN LORY.) 

 [Plate XXXII. ] 



Triclioglossus massence, Hartl. (nee Bp.) P. Z. S. 1867, p. 828. 



Triclioglossus cyanogrammus, Sclat. (nee Wagl.) P. Z. S. 1877, p. 554, sp. 9. 



Triclioglossus flavicans, Cabanis & Rchnw. Sitzb. Gesellscb. naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, 

 p. 73 (1876) ; Stiider, Porscbungsreise Gazelle, p. 237, t. x. fig. 1 (1889) ; Salvador!, 

 Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 290 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 55 (1891). 



Quills underneath "with a yellow band towards the base ; a greenish-yellow band on the nape ; breast red, 

 crossed by narrow dark bands, its feathers with no tinge of yellow towards the edges ; upper parts 

 olive-green ; abdomen green. 



Habitat. New Hanover, Admiralty and Echiquier Islands. 



The type of T. flavicans is preserved in the Museum of Berlin. 



Count Salvadori was at first inclined to tbinkthis species niigbt be a form of T. massena, 

 but by 1880 he came to regard it as distinct. He notes, however, that individuals vary as to 

 a yellowish tinge in the olive-green which bespreads its upper parts. 



The upper parts are of a bright golden green, but with an olive tinge. The forehead 

 and lores bluish, the vertex, occiput, and cheeks dark brownish purple. The throat is slightly 

 more purple. The nape has a yellow-olive collar. The feathers of the back have concealed 

 red spots and reddish-brown margins. The breast is bright red, crossed by narrow dark blue 

 transverse bands, the feathers having dark margins. The flanks, lower abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts yellow, but the feathers of the flanks and abdomen have broad olive-green 

 margins, which coalescing make the middle of the abdomen green, generally with a purple 

 tinge also. The under wing-coverts are red. The quills have the inner web with a broad 

 yellow colour towards the base, the most dorsally situated ones with some red. The tail is 

 yellowish olive above, more yellow beneath, the internal web being largely yellow, the 

 feathers being also more or less red towards the tip. The feet are grey, the iris reddish 

 yellow. 



Total length 10 inches, wing 6, tail 4*1, bill 0*95, tarsus 065. 



There are seven specimens in the National Collection, and we find that the purple tinge 

 on the abdomen is not a completely constant character. 



