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Psittacella brehmi pallida A. B. Meyer. 



Psittacella pallida A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. Ill, 

 1886, p. 3. 



Psittacella brehmi, Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. M. XX, 1891, 



p. 499 (partim). 

 Psittacella brehmi pallida, Hartert, Ibis, 1897, p. 58. 



Three females. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. Henkel- 

 man. — In these specimens only chin, throat and lower cheeks 

 are more greyish than in the typical brehmi from western 

 New Guinea ; the head has the same coloration. 



Psittacella madaraszi A. B. Meyer. 



Psittacella madaraszi A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. Ill, 

 1886, p. 4, pi. I, f. 1. — Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. M. XX, 

 1891, p. 500. - Hartert, Ibis, 1897, p. 58. — Roth- 

 schild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. VIII, 1901, p. 87. 



One specimen, apparently a female. Owen Stanley Moun- 

 tains. Coll. Henkelman.— The forehead is blue; crown green ; 

 nape and hindneck green with black and orange cross- 

 bars; back, wingcoverts and tail green; quills black with 

 green outerwebs; rump green with yellow and black bars; 

 underparts dull green, clearer on vent; under tailcoverts 

 red. Wing 86 mm. 



The male of Psittacella madaraszi is much like the male 

 of Psittacella modesta Schlegel (Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV 

 (1871), p. 36), so that the first seems to be a subspecies 

 of the latter; the females however differ so considerably, 

 that we must consider them as two species. 



Chalcopsitta ater insignis Oustalet. 



Chalcopsittacus insignis, Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. M. XX, 1891, 

 p. 15. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



