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in front and with no keel-like ridge; upper mandible with no file-like 

 surface on the under surface of the hook; tongue brushy; cere broader 

 over the culmen and gradually becoming narrower along the sides of the 

 bill • * * * wing acute, with the three first quills generally the 

 longest." {Salvadori.) In the single Philippine species the forehead 

 is "dark rosy red."' 



Genus TEICHOGLOSSUS Vigors and Horsfield, 1826. 

 Characters same as those given for the Family. 



233. TRICHOGLOSSUS JOHNSTONI/E Hartert. 

 MES. JOHNSTONE'S LORIKEET. 



Trichoglossus johnsicrnia: Habtert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903), 14, 10; 

 Xovit. Zool. (1906), 13, 7.5.5: McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 48; GB.A.NT, Ibis (1906), 495: Goodfellow, Avicult. Mag. 

 < 1906), 4, 83 (plate). 



Mindanao (Goodfellotc, Waterstradt) . 



Adult. — •'"Forehead dark rosy red, in the male obscured by greenish 

 tips to the feathers; narrow loral line and broad line from the eyes back- 

 ward meeting (in the female indistinctly) on the nape, dark brownish 

 purple (not quite as dark as 'prune-purple', Ridgway's Xomenclature of 

 Colors, pi. 8, fig. 1) ; rest of crown and whole upper surface grass-green, 

 the inner webs of remiges and first primary on both webs black, all, with 

 the exception of the first three, with a large sulphur-yellow patch in the 

 middle of inner webs; feathers round the mandible to ear-coverts dark 

 rose-red, those toward the ear-coverts, with yellowish-green tips; feathers 

 of under surface dull sulphur-yellow, with gray bases and broad green 

 tips; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts more greenish yellow, the 

 green tips less distinct ; under wing-coverts yellowish green, those near 

 edge of wing dark green and some of tlie longest ones pale yellow; tail 

 from below greenish brownish-yellow. Wing, 106 to 108; tail, 71 to 74; 

 bill from cere to tip, S, 14.5; 9, 1-; metatarsus about 13. •Bill 

 yellowish red.'" (Hartert.) 



Known only from specimens collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao. 



Family CACATUID^. 



Bill very strong; edge of upper mandible strongly sinuate; lower man- 

 dible with the lower face wide and slightly rounded; a large unfeathered 

 space about the eye; head crested; tail moderate and square; plumage 

 nearly all white in the single Pliilippine species. 

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