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Show 602 MR. RAMSAY O N BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. [NOV. 16, 168. PTISTES ERYTHROPTERUS. I found this species dispersed over the whole region from the Clarence river to the Cardwell district. Specimens of this species are smaller in size the further north they are found, until it reaches Cooktown and tbe Cape-York district, where they are the smallest, and the crimson on the shoulders of a deeper tint. 169. PLATYCERCUS CYANOGENYS. Only once met with ; this species appears to be very rare in the Cardwell district, although I have seen several specimens from Cape York. I found Parrots of all kinds very scarce, and especially the ground-Parrakeets and their allies. 1 did not meet with a single species of Euphema or Psepholus. 170. TRICHOGLOSSUS MULTICOLOR. 171. GLOSSOPSITTA PUSILLA. 172. GLOSSOPSITTA AUSTRALIS. All three species very plentiful, and frequently met with feeding in the flowering Eucalypti. I searched diligently for T. rubritorquis, but found no trace of it. 173. CYCLOPSITTA MACLEAYANA, Ramsay, Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, Nov. 15, 1874. This interesting and prettily marked species was discovered .first by Mr. K. Broadbent near Cardwell, and found feeding on the native figs with which the scrubs abound. The specimens in the Dobroyde Collection are the only fully adult specimens obtained. I believe I forwarded to the Society a full description of the adults, male and female, and the young, several months ago*. In case I should not have done so, I enclose a slip from the' Sydney Morning Herald,' in which a portion of m y notes appeared about the same time. Male. Upper surface bright grass-green; forehead crimson bounded by a band of bright verditer blue, which extends through the lores, and, narrowing round the eye, reaches to the ear-coverts ; from tbe base of the lower mandible, extending over the ear-coverts, an oblong patch of crimson, bounded below by a patch of deep blue; outer webs of primaries and secondaries deep blue; inner webs blackish brown 5 shoulders tinged with blue, under surface of the shoulders bright green, having a narrow band of yellow, formed by a series of spots of the larger under wing-coverts ; across the centre of the wing a larger band of yellow, formed by a series of elongated marks on all but the second and third primaries; a longitudinal spot of red on the inner webs of the third and fourth tertiaries nearest the body; the remainder of the wings on the under surface blackish brown; whole of the under surface of the body bright * [This description was never received. The species appears to be the same as C. maccoyi, Gould, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 314, and Birds of .New Guinea, pt. i. pl. 10.-P. L. S.] |