new Species of Coryllis. 207 



one described by me erroneously under this appellation, from 

 a specimen in the British Museum, brought by the late Mr. 

 Cuming from Mindanao. I therefore consider it necessary 

 to separate the two species as follows : — 



1. Coryllis regulus. 



Loriculus regulus, Souance, Rev. & Mag. Zool. 1856, p. 222. 



Licmetulus regulus, Bp. Naumania, 1856, Heft iv. 



Loriculus regulus. Martens, Journ. f. Orn. 1866, p. 21 ; 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1872, p. 324 (Negros, Panay). 



Male. Grass-green, underparts lighter ; front and sinciput 

 bright cinnabar-red, vertex golden yellow ; at the base of 

 the nape a spot of dark orange-red ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts dark scarlet-red ; a large oblong gular patch bright 

 cinnabar-red, with yellow base of feathers ; quills black, on 

 the outer web dark green, beneath ultramarine blue ; under 

 wing-coverts dark green ; tail-feathers dark green, beneath 

 dark ultramarine blue ; bill coral-red ; feet flesh-brown, nails 

 dark. 



Female. Like the male; the forehead also red, but the 

 vertex green, w^ith some yellow edgings of single feathers ; 

 the feathers on the base of mouth and around the lower man- 

 dible at their ends changing into light marine blue ; the 

 throat-patch not red, but greenish yellow, ill defined. Bill 

 and feet as in the male. 



C. regulus differs from its near ally, C. culacissi (Wagl.), 

 from Luzon, in having the crown bright golden yellow and 

 a much darker orange-red patch on the nape. The female 

 (not previously described) resembles very much the female 

 of C. culacissi, but may be distinguished by the darker nape- 

 patch, and the narrow light blue line round the mouth and 

 lower mandible, which in C. culacissi is of a more decided 

 blue and much broader, covering the whole loral region and 

 chin. 



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