CYCLOPSITTA OCCIDENTALIS, Salvad, 
Western Perroquet. 
Opopsitta desmarestii (part.), Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 166 (1858). — Gray, Cat. B. New Guinea, p. 42 (partira, 
1859). — Rosenb. (nec Garn.), Journ. fiir Orn. 1862, p. 63. — Id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 143, 
226 (partim, 1863). — Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 697. 
Cyclopsitta hlythi (part.), Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 285. 
Psitfacula desmarestii (part.), Scblegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci,p. 75 (1864). — Finscb, Die Papageien, ii. pp. 620, 
957 (partim, 1868). — Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, Revue, p. 32 (partim, 1874). 
Cyclopsitiacus desmarestii (part.), Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, vii. p. 754 (1875). 
Cyclopsittacw occidentalis,Sa\vad. Ann. Mus. Cmc. Genov, vii. p. 910 (1875). — Id. op. cit. x. pp. 27, 119 (1876). 
— Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, i. p. 152 (1880). 
Although this species has been in European collections for some time, the differences between it and 
C. desmaresti were overlooked by naturalists until Count Salvador! separated the two birds specifically. 
It has been referred by Mr. Wallace to Cyclopsitta hlythi, hut lacks the blue spot under the eye 
which distinguishes the latter species. 
Count Salvador! gives its habitat as Western New Guinea, near Soroug, Dorei-Hum, and also the 
islands of Salawati and Batanta. Two specimens, said to have been collected by the Dutch traveller 
Hoedt in Mysol, are in the Leyden Museum, but Count Salvador! thinks that these may have come from 
Salawati, 
This species may be briefly described as similar to C. desmaresti, but distinguished by its goldeti- 
yellow cheeks and ear-coverts, and by the paler blue of the spot under the eye, which has more or 
less of a greenish shade, by the absence of the blue occipital spot, and by having the head more 
tinged with red. 
The Plate represents an adult and an immature bird in two positions, drawn from specimens in the 
Gould collection. 
[R. B. S.] 
