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aiul also Wallace's specimens from Flores in other collections (one in Tring) are 



F. eiifr/i'x, and not, I believe, to be distingnislied from J', t'lite/i'x from Timor, 

 although, of conrse, a greater material would be of interest for comparison. So far 

 Dr. Biittikofer's error is excusable, but it is less so that Prof. Mivart, in his 

 Monograph of the Loriidiu', has united P. la'heri with P. eutelcs in the face of 

 Biittikofer's careftil description and good figure, evidently misled by the Flores skius 

 in the British Mnsenm. AVhether Wallace's Flores skins of P. enteles really came 

 from that island may be doubted, but there is no reason why two such good species 

 as P. eutele» and P. tvebcri should not occur on the same island. " The irides in 

 both se.\es are reddish orange, orbital skin and cere livid black; bUl orange-red, 

 tip of maxilla yellow; feet blackish grey or blue-grey." The JeTnale has the wing 

 about one to two cm. shorter. 



74. Geofiroyus floresianus Salvad. 



Of this form there is a fair series from South Flores, but in October they were 

 in dreadfully abraded plumage. The iris of the old tn^ile was " lemon-yellow." The 

 young female in first plumage, which has a green crown with slightly bluish 

 forehead, has the '' iris brown; the bill brown, passing into dnll yellow on the distal 

 half of the maxilla and on the mandible." This form is not easily separable from 



G. stan/javensis Salvad. The old 7nale differs only in a slightly shorter uing, in a 

 generally darker green colour with less of a yellow tint above and below, and a 

 slightly difi'erent darker blue colour of the under wing-coverts, while the colour of 

 the crown is variable, according to age of plumage, and therefore not a safe character 

 to go by. The female differs in having a shorter wing and generally darker green 

 colour. The young male in first plumage equals the young female in first plumage, 

 but from a young male in abraded plumage, which has a reddish brown crown with 

 a few fresh lilac-lilue feathers and a few red ones on the cheeks, it would seem 

 that the male passes through a plumage similar to that of the iu\\\\t female, before 

 assuming its breeding plumage. 



*7.5. Tanygnathus megalorhynchus (Bodd.). 



It is geographically of the highest interest that Mr. Everett discovered this 

 large parrot in Mangarai in South Flores, whence he sent us five specimens. It is 

 certainly peculiar that former travellers did not find such a showy bird in the island, 

 and we may well believe that it was not found in the places they visited. It is still 

 more interesting to see that the Flores specimens are not T. megalorhynchus 

 sumbensis A. B. Meyer. I can say this with much confidence, as I have not only 

 seen Dr. Meyer's types and the skin sent by Doherty, but as I have now before me 

 a good series from Sumba, shot there by Everett and his men. The birds from 

 Flores have the upperside as little blue as Moluocan skins and others, have not the 

 deeper green head of T. m. sumbensis, and are more yellowish below. On the other 

 hand, I cannot help noticing that the Flores sjieciincns, like those from Djami)ea, 

 are slightly more greenish, or I should say more washed witli green, below than the 

 majority of those from the more eastern islands of the archipelago. This character, 

 however, is only to be seen in fresh specimens and is subject to a great deal of 

 variation, and it is therefore, I think, safer for the present not to separate them 

 even " subspecifically " from T. inegnlorhjnclnts, though it is of interest to know 

 that there seems to be a tendency among the Flores and Djampea specimens to 



