536 



PSITT4.CIDJ2. 



spot on the throat is yellow stained with red ; carpal edge greenish 

 yellow : " hill yellow " (Meyer), in dry skins dusky yellowish. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



Loriculus amabilis, Wall. Ibis, 1862, p. 349 ; id. P. Z. S. 1864, 



pp. 287, 294 ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 131 (1864) ; Fmsch, 



Neu-Guin. p. 157 (1865) ; O. R. Or. Hand-list, ii. p. 152, 



n. 8180 (1870) ; Schleg. Ned. Tijdnchr. Dierk. iv. p. 7 (1871) ; id. 



Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 61 (1874) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. 



p. 497 (1875) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 755 (1875) ; 



Meyer, Bowl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 233, n. 17 (1877) ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 29, u. 34 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. 



p. 169 (1880) ; id. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. To?: ser. 2, xl. p. 162 (1889). 

 Coryllis amabilis, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 696 (1868) ; Bchnw. Journ. f. 



Orn. 1881, p. 231 (Consp. Psitt. p. 119) ; id. Vogelbild. Nacbtr. 55 



(1883). 



Adult male (type). Very much like the male of L. stigmatus, but 

 much smaller, of a darker green colour, and with the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts of a much brighter red : " bill black ; feet light 

 red" (Wallace). Total length 4-5 inches, wing 2-8, tail 1-35, bill 

 0-38, tarsus 0-32. 



Adult female. Wants the red on the crown, but the bases of the 

 feathers of the forehead are stained with red. 



Young. The spot on the throat and the metacarpal edge are 

 yellowish. 



Hab. Halmahera and Batchian. 



a, b. J 2 ad. sk. 

 c. Ad. sk. 



Gilolo, Halmahera. 

 Gilolo. 



A. R. Wallace [C.]. 

 (Types of species *.) 

 A. R. Wallace [C.]. 



* The female, the primaries of -which are lost, was most likely a cage-bird, 

 and I greatly doubt whether it really belongs to this species, as it has the under 

 tail-coverts stained with red, approaching in that respect L. catamene ; it cannot 

 be referred to the last-named species, as it has the carpal edge red, a feature 

 which is wanting in L. catamene. 



