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Show 1877.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. 107 according to recent discoveries1, must, I suppose, be regarded as a pair of this species. But it is only right to say that Mr. Brown does not share in the view that E. linncei is the female of E. polychlorus. He writes : - " By the by, I hear that many naturalists maintain that the Green Parrot (see specimens) is the adult male, and the red one the female or young bird of the same species. This is a gross error. Our attention was directed to this, and I am quite sure that they are two different birds. W e shot the green ones, both male and female." 35. GEOFFROIUS CYANICEPS. Piones- heteroclitus $, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. au P. S. Atl. t. 25 bis, fig. 2. Pionus cyaniceps, Puch. ibid. Zool. iii. p. 105. Geoffroius heteroclitus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 122. A skin from New Britain (Feb. 1876) agrees sufficiently with the two specimens from the Solomon Islands which I have referred to the female of this species on Dr. Finsch's authority. But I am now rather of opinion that Dr. Pucheran was probably correct in considering the so-called female of Hombron and Jacquinot a distinct species. M y specimens have no yellow at all on the cheeks; but the whole head is pale brown, with a cyaneous tinge. 36. LORICULUS TENER, sp. nov. Fern. Clare viridis fere unicolor, uropygio et caudee tectricibus superioribus flavicantibus : macula gutturali rubra : remigibus et rectricibus nigris, extus dorso concoloribus, inpagina inferiore leete cceruleis : rectricum ipsis apicibus flavicantibus : rostro nigro : pedibus fuscis : long. tot. 3*8, alee 2 7, caudce 1*2. Hab. Duke-of-York Island (Nov. 1875). Unfortunately there is only a single example of this diminutive Loriculus in the collection. It would seem to be nearest to L. aurantiifrons of Schlegel (Ned. Tijdschr. iv. p. 9). but has not the red rump, which, so far as I can tell from Schlegel's description, is present in both sexes of that species2. Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 912) and Meyer (Sitzungsb. Isis, 1875, p. 78) both record the occurrence of L. aurantiifrons in N e w Guinea, it having been originally described from Mysol. It is the only species of the genus yet known to be found there. 37. CACATUA OPHTHALMICA. Cacatua ducorpsi, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 141, pl. xiv. (err.). Cacatua ophthalmica, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 188. Plictolophus ophthalmicus, Finsch, Papag. i. p. 282. i Cf. Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genova, vii. p. 756. 2 P.S. (March 26th).-Dr. Salvadori has now most kindly lent m e a female of L. aurantiifrons from Andai, N e w Guinea, for comparison. It has the rump and upper tail-coverts scarlet instead of yellow, and is not generally of so bright a green as m y bird, which is otherwise very similar in size and colour.-P. L. S. |