44. LORICULUS. 537 



18. Loriculus catamene. 



Loriculus amabilis (part.), Wald. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 333 (Sanghir 



Isl.) ; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 26 (1872) ; Tweedd. Orn. Works, 



p. 131 (1881). 

 Loriculus catamene, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 7 (1871) ; 



id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. G2 (1874) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



ii. p. 497 (1875) ; Meyer, Howl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 233, n. 11 (1877) ; 



Rowl. § Meyer, Roivl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 236, pi. lvii. (young 6 ,2) 



(1877) ; Rosenb. Zool. Gart. 1878, p. 347 ; Meyer, Sitzb. u. Abh. 



Ges. Jsw, 1884, Abh. i. p. 6; id, Gejied. Welt, 1887, p. 264; Bias. 



Ornis, iv. p. 560 (1888). 

 Coryllis catamenia, Rchniv. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 230 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 118) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 52 (1883). 

 Coryllis catamene, Platen, Gefied. Welt, 1887, p. 263. 



Adult male. Pine green, lighter and shading slightly into 

 yellowish on the underparts ; front part of the pileum to the 

 middle of the vertex, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright red ; a spot on the throat to the middle of the chin red ; 

 under tail-coverts orange-red, narrowly edged with green ; both 

 upper and under tail-coverts longer than the tail-feathers ,- meta- 

 carpal edge yellowish green ; quills on the inner web underneath 

 verditer-blue ; tail-feathers dark green, bluish underneath, tipped 

 with yellow and edged at the tip very narrowly with red : " bill 

 black ; cere dusky yellowish ; feet orange-yellow " (Platen). Total 

 length about 5-3 inches, wing 3-3, tail 1*7, bill 0-45, tarsus 0-4. 



Adult female. Head entirely green, with no red on the front part 

 of the pileum ; red colour on the under tail-coverts as in the male ; 

 upper and under tail-coverts, as in the male, longer than the tail- 

 feathers. 



Young. Like the female ; the red spot on the throat smaller ; 

 the under tail-coverts yellowish green, more or less edged with 

 reddish ; bill yellowish *. 



Hab. Great Sanghir. 



19. Loriculus aurantiifrons. 



Loriculus aurantiifrons, Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 9 (1871) 

 (type examined) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 62 (1874) ; 

 Gteb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 497 (1875) ; Salvad. Ami. Mm. Civ. Gen. 

 vii. p. 911 (1875) ; Gould, B. of New Guin. pt. v. pi. 11 (1877) ; 

 Meyer, Rowl. Orn. Misc. ii. pp. 231, 234, u. 18 (1877) ; Sclat. 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 107 ; id. Rowl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 376, pi. 72. £ 1 

 ($) (1877) ; Salvad. Aim. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 29, n. 36 (1877) ; 

 Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 593 (1878-79) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e MoU 

 i.p. 171 (1-80): Shurpe.Jovm. Linn. Sue. Zool. xvi. p. 426 (1882) ; 

 Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol, iii. p. 516 (1883); id. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. 

 Tor. (2) xl. p. 162 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Colt. B. p. 76 (1889). 



* I am indebted to Prof. W. Blasius for lending me his specimens of this 

 rare species. 



