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and consequently this idea has been generally adopted as a 
fact, in spite of the contrary opinion held by Count Salvadori 
in the f Catalogue of Birds/ 
“ A few weeks ago a consignment of ten Eclectus wester - 
manni arrived in London alive, of which six were males and 
four females, the latter sex being previously unknown. The 
discovery of the female disposes at once of the fiction that 
this excellent species could be an aberration of E. riedeli, 
for it has a blue collar and therefore belongs to the E. roratus 
section. 
“The male differs from all the other species in being 
entirely green on the breast, while the others (including 
E. riedeli ) have a large patch of red on the sides of breast. 
(Specimens of E. roratus , E. pectoralis , E. vardinalis , and 
E. Cornelia were exhibited.) 
“The female of E. westermanni is similar to the female of 
E. pectoralis, but differs in having a blue collar and dull 
purple lower breast, while E. pectoralis has both collar and 
breast of the same bright blue colour. The under tail- 
coverts are also of a much darker and duller red. The ring 
of blue round the eyes of E. pectoralis is also absent in 
E westermanni. Both sexes are likewise much smaller than 
E. pectoralis.” 
Of the ten specimens mentioned above, Mr. Rothschild 
had three males and one female alive. The other six had died, 
and a stuffed male and female were exhibited. Mr. Roth¬ 
schild hoped to secure one more female, which had been 
mounted, but the remaining two males and one female had 
been destroyed. 
The habitat of the species was still unknown. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild also exhibited specimens 
of all the species of Pitta belonging to the red-bellied 
section “g” of that genus in the f Catalogue of Birds/ 
excepting P. cwrulei torques, which he did not possess. He 
observed :— 
“ Of all these forms, Pitta rubrinucha by its red nape, 
P. kochi by its large size, and P. dohertyi by its broad black 
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