THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Under the first named, which is here called Aprosmictus, the species 
erythropterus and jonquillaceus and wetter ensis were included : the latter is 
only ranked as a subspecies ol jonquillaceus by recent workers, and the other 
two are certainly congeneric. The distinct coloration is more noticeable than 
the “ structural ” difference in the tail. 
Under the next genus, here called Alisterus, were ranged cyanopygius , 
chloropterus, callopterus, amboinensis , buruensis , dorsalis , sulaensis and hypo - 
phonius . All these have the head and under parts of a crimson colour of 
different shades : from coloration alone they appear congeneric and they show 
well the variation in colour as regards the upper parts. 
In the type species, scapularis Licht. ( =cyanopygius auct.) the male has a 
blue nape patch, back coloration green, rump blue, tail above black : the 
primaries are green, but there is a bright pale green band on the shoulder. 
A New Guinea form, chloropterus , has this shoulder patch more marked, 
golden green, the blue on the back more extended, but the back is black not 
green. Another New Guinea form, callopterus , which I have not seen, appears 
to have the interscapular patch blue instead of black, but the shoulder patch 
is present. Another New Guinea form, recently described as A. wilhelmince, 
Ogilvie-Grant, has been reduced to sub specific rank under the preceding with 
which also chloropterus is regarded as sub specific only. Here the author of 
wilhebnince writes : “ The adult male differs from A. callopterus in having the 
scapulars dark green instead of black.” 
In the second series the green shoulder patch is missing, and the whole 
of the back is blue of different shades, the tail also blue above, but the primaries 
green. The forms, amboinensis , buruensis , dorsalis , and sulaensis seem only 
sub specifically separable. 
The species hypophonius, however, has the coloration much deeper blue, 
almost purple, and the primaries are blackish not green. 
All the preceding generally agree in size and coloration, and have the 
same wing formula and bill structure, and their range is East Australia and the 
Moluccas and New Guinea. It should be noted that as far as we know them 
the females are quite different in coloration, having the head and neck green, 
and other differences. However, under the genus name Pyrrhulopsis there is 
classed in the Catalogue of Birds five species, viz., splendens, tabuensis , koroensis , 
taviunensis, and per sonata. All are restricted to the Fiji group, and the first 
four are similarly coloured, the head, neck, and under surface red of various 
shades ; in some forms the blue nape patch is preserved, in others missing ; the 
green back and primaries are also present in some cases, in others being replaced 
by blue, while the blue rump patch has been lost, the green extending on to 
that and tinging the tail feathers which are mainly blue. There cannot 
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