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The Gents TRICHOGLOSSIJS. 



IT Trichoglossus haematodus haematodus (L.). 



We nuite a number of forms of Lories into one specific group, because they 

 all agree in having a dark mask, a greenish ring ronnd the neck, reddish breast 

 with dark borders to the feathers, dark green or bluish abdominal patch and a 

 large yellow area in the central portion of the quills. All characters found in any 

 of these forms are represented or indicated in one or more of the others. 



Trichoglossus novaehoUandiae, septentrionalis and ruhritorques from Australia 

 might also be associated with this group, but T. oruatns from Celebes, with its 

 wholly black quills, presents the most aberrant and singular characters, and is 

 therefore best considered as specifically different from the haematodus group. 



The typical haematodus has the forehead blue, the hind-neck and lower end 

 of throat green, the breast yellow, more or less tinged with orange-red, very rarely 

 quite orange-red, wnth vanishing blackish green edges to the feathers. Not very 

 large. Timor, 7 specimens before us. (Nov. Zool. V. p. 119, 1898.) 



18. Trichoglossus haematodus fortis Hart. 

 Perfectly like typical haematodus, only (bill and wings) larger, besides some 

 minor differences in colouration. Snmba, 11 skins before us. (Nov. Zool. V. 

 p. 120, 1898.) 



19. Trichoglossus haematodus forsteni (Temm.). 

 The adult bird has the head brownish purple, with the forehead bluish, an 

 indication of a purple-blue patch behind the light green collar, the breast uniform 

 bright red, middle of abdomen purple. These adult birds appear very widely 

 different from kaonatodus, but the young ones are on the upperside exactly like 

 haematodus and fortis, having the nape and area behind the collar quite green. 

 The red breast-feathers have in the j'ouug birds a yellow tinge and dark oreen 

 edges, and the abdomen is green, not purple. It is thus clearly shown that there 

 is no new character in forsteni, and that it can therefore be treated as a representative 

 of the haematodus group. Sumbawa, 8 specimens. (Nov. Zool. Ill p. 572, 

 1896.) 



2(1. Trichoglossus haematodus djampeanus Hart. 

 In every way like forsteni, from which it differs only in having a slightly 

 longer wing and larger bill, the forehead deeper blue, and a large and conspicuous 

 puriile patch behind the light green collar. (Cf. Nov. Zool. IV. p. 172, 1897.) 

 Djampea Island, six specimens. 



21. Trichoglossus haematodus mitchelli Gray. 

 Hardly differs from forsteni except in the colour of the head. The forehead 

 is greenish, not bluish, the nape dark cherry-red. The fully adult bird has not 

 the slightest tinge of yellow on the deep red breast-feathers ; the " Key to the 

 species " of the genus Trichoglossus in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XX. p. 49 is therefore 

 misleading. Younger individuals, however, have greenish-blackish edges to the 

 red breast-feathers, and generally a lot of yellow towards the dark grey bases and 

 in front of the dark tip as well. The up])er jjart of the abdomeu is purple in fully 



