TRICHOGLOSSUS MUSSCHENBROEKIL 
Van Musschenbroek’s Lorikeet. 
Nanodes musscJienhroekii, Schlegel, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde, iv. p. 34 (1873). Id. Mus. d. 
P.-B., Revue Psittaci, p. 52 (1874). 
Trichoglossus mussclienhroeldi, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 697. — Finsch, in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. part v. p. 61, 
pi. xliv. (1876). 
Neopsittacus musschenbroekii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, vii. p. 761 (1875). 
Professor Schlegel describes this species in the following manner ; — “M. von Rosenberg has just forwarded 
us, under the title of Nanodes musschenbroekii, three adult individuals of a species of Nanodes new to science. 
These comprise two females and a male, all exactly resembling each other, and collected in April 1870 in the 
interior of the north-western peninsula of New Guinea. The species is naturally allied to N.placens andV. 
ruhrinotutus \ but it is distinguished at the first glance by its larger size and by the very sensible modifications 
in the distribution of its colours.” 
Nothing more was recorded concerning the species until D’Albertis brought back examples from Atam ; 
and since then Count Salvadori has received it from Mount Arfak. In recording the last-named occurrence 
Count Salvadori makes it the type of a new genus, on account, as he says, of its differently shaped bill, the 
upper mandible being very ranch more strongly incurved, and the lower one showing a flat superficies on the 
gonys, which is very broad. These characters the describer considers sufficient to separate the bird generi- 
cally from the other members of the Trlchoglossinee. 
I have to thank Dr. Meyer for the loan of the fine s})ecimen from which the figures in the Plate have 
been drawn ; and the following is a description of this bird : — 
Face green, each feather having a yellow centre ; back part of the crown and nape brown, streaked 
with pale yellow ; all the upper surface, including the two centre tail-feathers and flanks, green ; chest 
and centre of the abdomen red ; all the primaries and secondaries as seen from above, when the wing is 
expanded, brilliantly marked with red on the inner webs ; the same brilliant red also occurs on tbe under 
wing, except the tips of the primaries, which are brownish black; tail cuneate, tbe four centre feathers 
nearly uniform green with slightly rosy tips, the external ones green on the outer webs, w'ith brilliant red 
on the inner webs, the whole broadly tipped with yellowish rose-colour. Total length 8i inches ; wing 4r, 
tail 3f, tarsus 1. 
Professor Schlegel states that the soft parts w^ere found by Von Rosenberg to be as follows — “bill orange- 
red, iris citron-yellow', feet yellowish flesh-colour.” 
In concluding this brief memoir of a very interesting bird, I must beg to offer a dissenting voice as to its 
belonging to the genus Nanodes or being allied to Psitteuteles ; neither can I agree wuth the learned Count 
Salvadori in instituting a new genus for its reception. From the first moment I examined the skin kindly 
forwarded to me by Dr. Meyer I considered it a true Trichoglossus — an opinion in which Dr. Sclater evidently 
coincides ; see the ‘ Proceedings ’ of the Zoological Society, as quoted in the above synonymy. More 
recently too. Dr. O. Finsch has declared in favour of the bird being a true Trichoglossus. 
The principal figure in the Plate is of about the size of life. 
