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Show 92 COUNT T. SALVADORI ON THE [Jan. 15, Astur contumax, Rosenb. Reis naar zuidoostereil. p. 36 (Aru), descr. nulla (1867). Urospizias spilothorax, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 900. sp. 1 (1875), Arfak and Jobi, x. pp. 115, 117. sp. .5 (1877). Accipiter etorques, part., Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 109. n. 45 (young specimen). [No. 253. Male, from Wanumbai.-J. Mi] This bird is young. I have found in the museums of Leyden and Berlin two specimens which are very much like my If. spilothorax; but they have only a few longitudinal dark spots on the lower part of the breast, showing that these spots are not a permanent character, and that my U. spilothorax represents only a stage of If. poliocephalus. 4. MICROGLOSSUS ATERRIMUS (Gm.). [No. 206. Wokan. Male: eyes black; cheek-membrane red; stomach contained many of the insides of kernels of nuts. This was shot on the top of one of the highest trees. Only one seen at the time.-J. Mi] I have seen many specimens from the Aru Islands, and these are in general much smaller than those from New Guinea; and I think that the type of Psittacus alecto, Temm., which I have seen in the Museum of Leyden, must have come from the Aru Islands1. I do not think that there is more than one species of the genus Microglossus. 5. CYCLOPSITTACUS MELANOGENYS (Rosenb.). "Psittacula melanogenia, Rosenb." Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. v. Dierk. iii. p. 330 (1866), Aru (type examined); Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxix. p. 142 (1867). Psittacula melanogenys, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 626 (1868). Cyclopsittacus melanogenys, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 29, sp. 33(1877). [No. 207. Wokan. Female: eyes black; legs with a greenish tinge. No. 208. Wokan. Probably a male; but the specimen was too much injured to determine.-J. Mi] The example, without indication of the sex, is most likely a female, having the ear-coverts orange. 6. ECLECTUS POLYCHLORUS (Scop.). Psittacus polychlorus, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. p. 87, n. 27 (1786) (ex Sonnerat), 3. Eclectus linimi, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 571, t. xxi. (1832), ? . Eclectus polychlorus, var. aruensis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 183. 1 The specimen in the Berlin Museum, which has been regarded as a second one of M. alecto, looks smaller than the New-Guinea specimens from having the primaries cut off. |