PSITTACELLA BREHMII, Rosenberg. 
Brehm^s Parrot. 
Psittacus Irehmii, Ros. in lit., Schlegel, Obs. Zool. v., Ned. Tijdschr. voor de Dierk. iv. p. 35, 1873, ¥ (nec t?). 
Psittacella hrehmii (Ros.), A. B. Meyer, Cab. Journ. f, Orn. Jan. 1874, and Sitzungsber. der k.-k. Akad. de Wiss. 
zu Wien. Ixix. p. 74, Febr. 1874. — T. Salvadori, Ann. del Mus. Civ. di St. Nat. di Genova, vii. p. 765, 
1875. 
When one lias to deal with a species of Parrot so different from all others that have yet been discovered, 
there can he no difficulty with regard to synonymy, or need for many remarks on the differences hetween 
it and others. 
The native country of this Parrot is the northern part of New Guinea, wliere it was first collected hy 
Baron Rosenberg-; but, if I rightly understand the sense of a letter to me from Dr. Meyer, Rosenberg 
only discovered the female, while he himself was fortunate enough to obtain both sexes : — “ I procured 
within a few days five specimens, all in the same locality, two of which were males, and three females. 
The back of the male is similar to the same part in the female ; hut the plumage of the breast and flanks, 
instead of being crossed with crescentic bars, is uniform green ; it is also the male alone that possesses 
the beautiful semicollar of bright yellow, an ornament which adds greatly to the beauty of this sex.” 
The male has the head, cheeks, and throat dark olive-brown ; on the sides of the neck below the 
dark colouring of the cheek and throat brilliant jonquil-yellow ; back, including the tail-coverts, green, 
crossed by narrow bands of black ; upper part of the wing and tail hi’ight grass-green ; the same bright 
green also pervades the whole under surface ; under tail-coverts bright scarlet ; on the shoulders both 
above and below a patch of blue ; bill bluish horn-colour ; feet dark bluish-grey. In the female the 
yellow neck-bands and uniform green breast are wanting ; in other respects she is similarly coloured. 
Total length 8f Inches; wings 3i, tail 2i, tarsi 1, bill |. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
Hab. Northern portions of New Guinea. 
