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1. GLOSSOPSITTACUS GOLDIEI. 



(GOLDIE'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XLV. Fig. 1.] 



Neopsittacus golcliei, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xviii. p. -419 (1882). 

 Trichoglossm golcliei, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. pp. 318, 426 (1882); id. 



Gould's Birds of New Guinea, vol. v. pi. 41 (1883). 

 Glossopsittacus golcliei, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 68 (1891). 



Underparts with shaft-streaks. 



Habitat. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New Guinea. 



This species was discovered by Mr. Goldie during his expedition to the Astrolabe Mountains, 

 and was named after that explorer by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in 1882. Mr. Goldie affirms 

 that its native name is " I-I-hawa." 



The type of the species is in the British Museum, and is represented in our Plate ; but 

 its colours have been made rather more vivid, like those of the second skin, which appears 

 a better specimen. 



This species is readily distinguishable from the others of its genus by the dark shaft- 

 streaks on its underparts. The colour of the upper parts is a rather dark green, the hind 

 neck is somewhat mottled, the edges of the feathers being yelloAV. The forehead and 

 vertex are bright red. A band extending backwards and upwards from the eye to the 

 nape is purplish blue. The lores and cheeks are reddish, and the latter is traversed, as are 

 the ear-coverts, by vivid blue shaft-streaks. Between the blue of the nape and the dark 

 green of the back is a band of yellow-green, with dark green streaks, and the throat, breast, 

 and abdomen are similarly coloured and marked with dark streaks, those on the under 

 surface of the body being very conspicuous. The under tail-coverts and thighs are yellowish 

 green. The quills are dusky underneath, with a yellow transverse band formed by yellow 

 patches on much of the inner webs of all but the outer primaries. The primary-coverts are 

 dusky ; the other under wing-coverts are streaked with dark green in the same manner as 

 is the breast. The tail-feathers are greenish brown, edged with bright green, and the tips 

 fringed with yellow, dirty yellow beneath. The bill is black, and the feet nearly so. 



Total length 7 inches, wing 42, tail 3*1, culrnen 0"55, tarsus 0"5. 



Salvadori tells us that in the female and in the immature bird only the forehead is 



red, while the feathers of the vertex and occiput are green at the base and purplish blue 



towards the tip. 



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