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CUCULIDAE. 



Caliechthrus leucolophus (S. Muller). 



Caliechthrus leucolophus^ Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 358. 

 Calliechthrus leucolophus^ Shelley, Cat. B. Br. M. XIX, 1891, 

 p. 225. 



A male. Kaukas, 25 April 1907. Coll. van Cloven, 



PslTTACIDAE. 



Charmosyna stellae A. B. Meyer. 



Charmosyna stellae A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. Ill, 

 1886, p. 9, pi. II. - Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. M. XX, 1891, p. 83. 



A male and two females. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. 

 Henkelman. 



Cyclopsitta desmarestii intermedia^ nov. subspec. 



One male. Evidently from Fak-Fak. Coll. Palmer van 

 den Broek. 



One specimen. Kaukas. Coll. van Cloven. 



I separate here the form, which occurs on the mainland of 

 New Guinea, south of the MacCluer Gulf under the name 

 of intermedia. The type-specimens are three birds, collected 

 by Mr. K. Schadler at Skroe, west-coast of New Guinea, 

 south of the MacCluer Gulf, viz. : a male and a female (?) 

 shot 17 January 1897 and a female (?) shot 26 February 

 1897. This subspecies differs from Cyclopsitta desmarestii 

 Garnot, from Dorei, by the brighter vermilion-orange pileum 

 and hindneck, by the smaller occipital blue spot, which 

 is sometimes absent, by the smaller and paler, rather greenish 

 blue suborbital spot, which spot is larger than that in 

 occidentalis and more pure blue. The cheeks are green with 

 orange tips to only a few feathers, the earcoverts are green, 

 not golden yellow as in occidentalis, all the feathers with 

 orange extremities. 



Notes from the Leyden Museuxn, Vol. X.JCX.» 



