CYCLOPSITTA SUAVISSIMA, Sclater. 
D^Aiberti3\s Perroquet. 
Cyclopsitta suavissima, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 520. — Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xiii. p. 491 (187 8). 
Cyclopsittacus suavissimus, Salvadori, Annali Mus. Civic. Genov, ix. p. 12 (1876-7). — Id. op. cit, x. p. 28 (1877). 
Of the four Papuan species of Cyclopsitfa two have blue foreheads, and two have the forehead brown ; the 
blue-fronted birds are C. gulielmi III. and C. suavmima ; the brown-fronted ones C. melanogenys and C. 
fuscifrons. The present bird was discovered by Signor D’ Albertis in the neighbourhood of Naiabui, in South- 
eastern New Guinea ; Mr. Octavius Stone also met with it in the neighbourhood of Port Moresby ; 
and the former naturalist tells us that it feeds on fruits and on seeds. Although closely allied to C. gulielmi 
///., it is, according to Count Salvadori, a much smaller bird, and is distinguished by the less-brilliant orange 
of the breast, by its white lores, by the black patch on the face much bigger and more constant ; and 
he gives a very full account of the s})ecies in his paper on D’Albertis’s collection. 
I copy from the last-named essay the full diagnosis given by the Count. 
Adult male. Green, darker on the upper surface ; forehead and a spot behind the eye blue; lores white, 
the sides of the head and the throat whitish yellow ; cheeks broadly black ; lower throat and breast orange; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts pale green, slightly Inclining to yellow ; quills dusky, the primaries blue 
on the outer web ; secondaries and uj)per wing-coverts green, uniform with the hack ; carpal edge of the 
wing bluish ; lesser and median under wing-coverts greenish yellow, the greater ones dusky ; quills 
yellowish towards the base of the inner web ; tail green ; bill, feet, and iris black. 
Female. Similar to the male, but having the cheeks blue, the ear-coverts orange, the breast scarcely 
orange, but rather greenish yellow, the sides of the breast on each side with a longitudinal yellow mark. 
Young male. Similar to the old female, but having the forehead only slightly tinged with blue, the lores 
whitish yellow, the cheeks greenish, tinged on the upper part with blue, the ear-coverts yellow, the lower 
throat and upper breast yellowish. 
The figures in the Plate represent the typical pair of birds described by Dr. Sclater, and now in Italy. I 
am indebted to Count Salvadori for permission to figure them here. 
Whatever time may bring in regard to the discovery of new Parrots, we can scarcely expect, even in the 
splendid genus Cyclopsitta, a more beautiful bird than the one here figured. 
