CYCLOPSITTA COCCINEIFRONS. 
Astrolabe-Mountain Perroquet. 
Cyclopsittaciis coccmeifrons, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvi. pp. 318, 426 (1882). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 
Genov, xviii. p. 418 (1882). — Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, iii. p. 516 (1882). 
This species was discovered by Mr. Goldie in the Morocco district of the Astrolabe Mountains in South- 
eastern New Guinea. Mr. H. O. Forbes has recently met with it in the Sogeri district on the same range 
of mountains. 
We separated the present species from C. diophthalmus on account of the darker colour of the red on the 
crown, but now that we have had an opportunity of examining a second specimen, and that a male bird, we do 
not find that this distinction is upheld, but the species is nevertheless different from C. diophthalmus. It may 
in fact be recognized by the greater breadth of the yellow band across the crown, which is little more than 
a narrow line in the last-named sjiecies. 
Neither Mr. Goldie nor Mr. Forbes have given any information respecting the habits of this pretty little 
Perroquet, but the former gentleman states that it is called ‘ Ciguri ’ by the natives of the Astrolabe Mountains. 
The following is a description of the sexes of this species ; — 
Adult female. General colour above grass-green; lesser wing-coverts like the back, becoming a little 
brighter on the median and greater coverts, the outermost of which are slightly washed with blue; bastard- 
wing and primary-coverts deep blue ; quills black, the |)rimaries externally deep blue ; the secondaries green 
lihe the back ; the innermost marked with scarlet on the inner web, as also the innermost greater coverts ; 
tail-feathers darker green than the back, washed with blue near the base and on the inner web ; a broad 
band across the forehead and sineijiut, deep scarlet or didl crimson, succeeded by a well-defined band of 
yellow, the occiput and nape and hind neck a little more yellowish green than the hack ; lores crimson, as 
also a streak below the eye ; above the fore part of the eye a broad streak or longitudinal spot of greenish 
turquoise ; ear-coverts and cheeks pale drab-brown, washed with greenish blue below, and with a narrow 
line of purplish blue behind the ear-coverts; under surface of body light emerald-green, with a broad streak 
of golden yellow down the sides of the body ; thighs and under tail-coverts light emerald-green, the long 
ones edged with yellow ; under wing-coverts emerald-green, those near the edge of the wing deep bluish 
green ; a.xillaries emerald-green with a darker green centre ; lower coverts and quills below dusky blackish, 
crossed with a double bar of pale yellow. Total letigth 5*6 inches, cidmen 0’55, wing 3'65, tail 1'55, 
tarsus 0‘3. 
The adult male differs from the type, which is evidently a female, in having the cheeks and sides of face 
scarlet: “bill bluish carneous, black on the tips of the mandibles; legs and feet pale blue; iris orange- 
red ” {H. 0. Forbes^. Total length 5‘5 inches, wing 3*25, tail 1*45, tarsus 0*35. 
The. Plate represents an adult male in two positions, the figures being drawn from a specimen procured 
by Mr. Forbes in tbe Astrolabe Mountains. 
[R. B. S.] 
