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Show 1878.] BIRDS OF TERNATE, AMBOYNA, ETC. 93 Eclectus polychlorus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen.x. p. 31. (1877). [No. 212. Wokan. Male: eyes orange; upper mandible red towards the base, and whitish-yellow towards the tip; lower one jet-black; stomach contained inside-coating of cocoa-nut, and some species of comminuted red coral (tubular coral); feet black.-/. Mi] Mr. G. R. Gray considered the Aru specimens as forming a peculiar race of E. polychlorus, on account of the yellowish band at the tip of the tail being more conspicuous and tinged with reddish ; but the differences are very slight and not constant. 7. CHALCOPSITTACUS SCINTILLATUS (Temm.). Psittacus scintillatus, Temm. Pl. Col. p. 569 (1835), Lobo, juv. (type examined). Chalcopsitta rubrifrons, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 182. pt. 135 (ad.), Aru (type examined). Domicella scintillata, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 752 (1868). Chalcopsittacus scintillatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. p. 34, sp. 75 (1877). [No. 213. Wokan. Male: eyes dull red ; feet black ; both mandibles black; stomach quite empty. No. 229. Wokan. Male : eyes orange ; feet and bill black ; stomach contained insects and leaves.-J. Mi] Both specimens are fully adult. 8. TRICHOGLOSSUS NIGRIGULARIS, G. R. Gr. Trichoglossus nigrigularis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 183, Aru (type examined). Trichoglossus cyanogrammus, part., Finsch, Die Papag. ii. 830 (1868). [No. 237. Male, Wokan : eyes red, bill red; legs slate-colour; stomach contained small seeds. Shot at Wokan.-J. Mi] This species is confined to the Aru Islands and to the Ke Islands, and it is quite distinct from T. cyanogrammus (Wagl.), with which it has been assimilated by Wallace, Schlegel, and Finsch. I have seen many specimens of both species, and I have found that constantly T. nigrigularis differs from T. cyanogrammus:- 1st. In the red of the breast inclining to orange, paler and with a most conspicuous yellow tint near the dark edges of the feathers. 2nd. The dark edges of the breast-feathers are much narrower, as in T. massence. 3rd. The head above has only two colours, blue in the anterior half, greenish in the other half; while in T. cyanogrammus the head above has three colours, blue on the sinciput, green on the vertex, and purplish-brown on the occiput, like T. massence. 4th. The middle of the abdomen is generally blackish. 5th. The dimensions are larger. The Ke-Islands specimens are a little larger than those from the Aru Islands. |