208 On an apparently new Species of Coryllis. 



This species inhabits the islands of Negros and Panay, where 

 it has been collected by Dr. A. B. Meyer, to whom we are 

 indebted for the knowledge of the exact habitat. Mr. L. C. 

 Layard seems not to have observed this species during his 

 stay on the island of Negros, as it is not included in the valu- 

 able list of his birds published by Lord Walden {vide Ibis, 

 1872, pp. 93-107). 



2. Coryllis occipitalis, sp. nov. 



Loriculus regulus, Gray (nee Souance), List B. Brit. Mus. 

 Psitt. 1859, p. 56; Wallace, P. Z.S. 1864, p. 288. 



Coryllis regulus, Finsch, Papag. ii. 1868, p. 710 (part). 



L. regulus, Gray, Handl. iii. p. 252 (Mindanao). 



In every respect like the foregoing species, except that the 

 bright golden yellow of the vertex extends to the occiput. 



Female unknown. 



Hab. Mindanao [Cuming). 



Having had no opportunity of seeing the type of Souance, 

 I was, until lately, of opinion that the species in the British 

 Museum was (as labelled by the late G. R. Gray) the true C. 

 regulus ; and I considered the differences in the amount of yel- 

 low on the head only individual. But, as I have shown 

 above, we now know the true habitat of C. regulus to be the 

 islands of Negros and Panay, and, in consequence of the dif- 

 ferences, explained above, may regard the Mindanao bird as 

 of a different species. 



I should mention that there is another specimen in the 

 British Museum labelled L, regulus, and also described by 

 me (Papag. p. 711), which shows not only the vertex and 

 occiput yellow, but also the hind neck and nape. In this 

 respect it comes near to C. chrysonotus, Scl. (Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 324, t. xi.), from Cebu; but this latter has no orange-red 

 spot on the nape, so that the specimen in the British ]\Iuseum, 

 without exact locality, may possibly turn out to belong to 

 another undescribed species of this group, as we are still 

 far from being well acquainted with the avifauna of the various 

 islands of the Philippine archipelago. 



