GEOFFROYIUS TIMORLA OENSIS, Meijer. 
Tenimber Parrot. 
Geoffroykis keyensis, Salvad. ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, pp. 51, 200. — Forbes, Naturalist’s Wanderings, 
p. 356 (1885). 
Geoffroykis timorlaoensis, Meyer, Vogel, Nester und Eier aus dem Ostind. Archipel, p. 15 (1884). 
The first specimens sent from Timor Laut by Mr. H. O. Forbes were referred by Dr. Sclater to Geoffroy'ms 
keyensis, the species from the Ke Islands. Dr. A. B. Meyer, the well-known Director of the Dresden Museum, 
received no less than eleven specimens from Timor Laut, collected by Mr. Riedel’s hunters, and be came to 
the conclusion that the species from the two groups of islands above named were not identical, and he 
named the bird from the Tenimber Islands Geoffroykis timorlaoensis. 
The differences referred to by Dr, Meyer consist of the smaller size of G. timorlaoensis and the green instead 
of blue colour on the external aspect of the first primary. We have comj)ared four specimens of the 
Tlmor-Laut birds with two specimens of G. keyensis from the Ke' Islands, and we must confess that the 
characters for their separation are of the very slightest. We cannot see the smallest difference between the 
two species as regards the blue on the first primary, and the only character is the slightly smaller size of 
G. timorlaoensis. Mr. Forbes has also written a critique on the species in bis entertaining narrative of his 
expedition to Timor Laut, and his conclusions are the same as our own. 
In deference to Dr. Meyer’s kindness in lending us the specimens, we have given figures of the species and 
add a description. 
Adult male. General colour above grass-green, a little lighter towards the under tail-coverts; wing-coverts 
like the back, the innermost reddish, forming a shoulder-patch ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 
dusky blackish, externally dark grass-green, the secondaries entirely of the latter colour ; the first primary edged 
with richer and deeper green than the others ; upper tail-coverts lighter green than the back ; tail-feathers 
glistening yellow, edged with emerald-green ; crown of head jdum-coloured or purj)lish lilac, with a frontal 
band of scarlet, which colour extends over the lores and entire sides of the face, being tinged with lilac on 
the ear-coverts and sides of the head ; throat also scarlet, the lower throat, fore neck, and remainder of 
under surface bright grass-green, paler towards the vent and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and 
axillaries cobalt-blue, some of the long axillary plumes green with blue tips ; the edge of the wing green ; 
quills below blackish. Total length 9’5 Inches, culmen 105, wing 7*0, tail 3*5, tarsus 0’6. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but lacks all tbe brilliant colouring of tbe head and face, the head 
being of an olive-yellowish tint all round, including the throat, the crown greener and more like the back. 
Total length 9'5 inches, culmen 1 05, wing 6 85, tail 3*55, tarsus 0*6. 
The Plate represents an old male and female of about the natural size, the figures being drawn from the 
two birds lent to us by Dr. Meyer. 
[R. B. 8.] 
