52 Dr. A. B. Meyer's Field-notes 



orauge-tinged ; tlie red of the upper tail-coverts already per- 

 fect ; bill yellow ; feet yellowish brown ; underparts of the 

 wings bright blue. It chiefly fed on bananas in captivity^ 

 and became very tame. (Compare^ as to its habits in cap- 

 tivity, my notes in G. D. Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscel- 

 lany/ ii. p. 252 et seg., 1877.) 



LoRicuLus scLATERi, Wallace. 



Does not occur on Celebes, so far as I am aware ; and I do 

 not believe that Von Rosenberg's report can be trusted in 

 this case ; at least this must remain doubtful till another 

 collector again brings the bird from there. (Compare my 

 notes /. c.) 



LoRicuLUs QUADRicoLoRj Waldcu, Ann. N. H. ser. 4, 

 ix. p. 398. 



1 discovered this species in the neighbourhood of the village 

 of Togian, on the chief island of the Togian group in the 

 Gulf of Tominij in August 1871. I only procured six speci- 

 mens. 



In life the eyes are yellowish white, feet yellowish red, bill 

 and claws black, cere and skin round the eyes reddish 

 yellow. 



(Compare my notes /. c. p. 252 et seq.) 



LoRicuLus ExiLis, Schlegel. 



Native name, "Tintis-kitjil.'^ ^'Tintis" is the name for 

 Loriculus stigmaius; and '^kitjil" = little in Malay. 



In life, eyes yellow, feet orange-yellow somewhat reddish, 

 bill coral red. 



This species is said to feed only on flower-juices; and I 

 never found anything solid in the stomach. It lives in 

 flocks. I got the first pair near Menado at the end of March 

 in 1871 ; then, at the end of April and in May, any number 

 could be procured by the natives, who shoot them with 

 blowpipes, long bamboos through which they blow small 

 arrows made out of pointed bamboo. It frequents the 

 mangrove-thickets near the sea-shore (chiefly Sonneratia 

 acida, L.) ; and I believe that its sudden appearance in 



