534 PSITTACIDJ5. 



Adult male. Green, the quills and the tail darker ; forehead with 

 a tinge of reddish brown at the base of the feathers ; a large 

 patch on the back, extending in a triangle between the shoulders, 

 golden orange-yellow, deepening in the middle to rich orange-red ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts bright red ; a stripe on the throat and 

 the metacarpal edge red ; outer web of the quills green, inner web 

 black ; inner web of the quills underneath and tail beneath blue ; 

 tip of the tail-feathers paler green : " bill black ; cere and base of 

 the upper mandible yellow ; feet yellow ; iris yellow " ( Wallace). 

 Total length 5-8 inches, wing 3-6, tail 1*7, bill 0-52, tarsus 0-45. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Green colour duller ; the patch on the back is golden 

 yellow, with no orange-red in the middle ; the rump and the uro- 

 pygium of a duller red ; the stripe on the throat dull orange-red ; 

 the carpal edge yellow, stained with orange. 



Hab. Sula Islands. 



a-g. Ad. et juv. Sula Islands. A. R. Wallace [C.]. 



sk. (Types of species.) 



h, i. Ad. sk. Sula Islands {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Sula Islands (A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



in. $ sternum 



with scapidar 



girdle. 



15. Loriculus quadricolor. (Plate XV.) 



Loriculus quadricolor, Wald. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (4) ix. p. 398 

 (1872) ; id. Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 109 (note) (1872) ; Meyer, Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1873, p. 404 ; id. in Ruwl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 233, n. 14 

 "(1877) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 274 (1878) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 

 pp. 52,145,146,147; Ticeedd. Orn. Works, pp. 125, 207 (note) 

 (1881) ; Wardl. Rams. Tiveedd. Orn. Works, p. 067 (1881). 



Lorius (!) quadricolor, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 814 (1877). 



Coryllis quadricolor, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 231 (Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 119) ; id. Vogelhild. Nachtr. 55 (1883). 



Adult male (type). Like the male of L. sclateri, from which it 

 differs in having the crown bright red, the interscapular region 

 golden orange, without the orange-red tinge in the middle, and the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts of a darker red : " eyes yellowish white ; 

 feet yellowish red ; bill and claws black ; cere and skin round the 

 eyes reddish yellow " {Meyer). Total length 5-8 inches, wing 3-69, 

 tail 1-7, bill 0-45, tarsus 0-37. 



Female. Differs from the male, wanting the red crown ; the head 

 is green ; on the forehead the bases of the feathers are red. 



Young. Like the female, but has the metacarpal edge greenish 

 yellow. 



Hab. Togian Islands, in the Gulf of Tomini (Celebes). 



This species is smaller than L. sclateri, and has the bill entirely 

 black, whereas in L. sclateri the base of the bill is yellow. 



Of the three specimens examined the male is not fully adult, 

 having a few green feathers interspersed among the red ones of the 



