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TBICHQGLOSSUS GQjLBEX Shape, Waller imp.
TRICHOGLOSSUS GOLD I El, Sharpe.
Goldie’s Perroquet.
Trichoglossus goldiei, Sharpe, Joum. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) vol. xvi. p. 317 (1882).
T h e present species was one o f the handsomest birds discovered by Mr. Goldie during his expedition to
the Astrolabe Mountains. I t appears to me to be quite distinct from any known species o f the genus
Trichoglossus; and the name attached to it by Mr. Bowdler Sharpe will perpetuate the name o f one o f the
pioneers o f research in the untrodden regions o f South-eastern New Guinea. I t was procured by M r. Goldie In
the Morocco district a t the back o f the Astrolabe Mountains, where it is known to the natives, according to
th at gentleman, by the name o f “ 1—I— hawa”
The following is a copy o f the description given by Mr. Sharpe in his paper on Mr. Goldie’s collection
read before the Linnean Society at their meeting o f the 6th of April, 1882.
“ Adult male. General colour above green, the hind neck mottled with yellow edges to the feathers,
extending a little on the man tle; wing-coverts like the b a c k ; primary-coverts and quills dusky blackish,
externally brighter green, the secondaries like th e b a c k ; tail-feathers greenish brown, edged with bright
green like the back, the tips fringed with yellow; forehead and sinciput scarlet, tending towards a point in
the middle o f the c row n ; from behind the eye a broad purplish-blue band extends round the occiput to
behind the opposite eye : the nape-feathers brown washed with lilac, and faintly streaked with dull sc a rle t;
lores, sides o f face and ear-coverts lilac red, with a bluish shade along the upper m argin o f the l a tte r ; below
the eye the feathers rath e r lig h ter in colour, and having indistinct tiny streaks o f dull blu e; under surface
o f body yellowish green, streaked with darker green down the centre o f the feathers, more narrowly on the
under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts like the breast and streaked with dark green in the same manner.;
quills dusky below, all but the outer primaries oily yellow for two thirds o f the inner web, forming a
conspicuous diagonal patch across the wing when uplifted. Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 0 ‘6, wing 4*2,
tail 3*1, tarsus 0 -5 .”
T h e figures in the Plate are drawn from specimens in the British Museum, the one first described by Mr.
Sharpe being the duller-coloured o f the tw o ; it is probably a female or young male. Both birds a re represented
of the natural size.
[R. B. S.]