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Loriculus melanoptcriis et apicalis, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, nos. 8175, 8176. 

 Loriculus ajncalis, Souauce, v. Martens, J. f. O. 18CG, p. 21, no. 115, nee Souance. 



Jlab. Mindanao {Cuming). 



The above title was founded by Dr. O. Finsch (/. c.) on some examples of a Lorikeet 

 obtained by Mr. Cuming in Mindanao, and contained in the British Museum. One of these 

 indi^dduals Mr. G. E. Gray {I. c.) had identified with P. melanopterus, Scopoli, and the other 

 with L. apicalis, Souance. The last title belongs with little doubt to L. indicus (Gm.) {conf. 

 O. Finsch, torn. cit. p. 718). The former is based on the two figures given by Sonnerat in his 

 40th plate {torn. cit.). These two figures, though given by Sonnerat as representing the two 

 sexes of a Luzon parrot, belong clearly to two distinct species. The so-called male is described 

 by that author as having the top of the head red, and the throat blue ; while the female is said 

 to differ in having the throat and the feathers surrounding the base of the bill red, and in having 

 a yellow spot on the back of the neck. If it had been made clear by Sonnerat that the summit 

 of the head in his so-called female was also red, there would be no difficulty in showing that he 

 was describing an example of L. pMlippensis ; and to that species I have already referred his 

 upper figure, although with doubt. The so-called male, represented by the lower figure, on the 

 Tr. Z. S. ix. whole appears to agree best with L. indicus ; and to this species Dr. O. Finsch has referred it 

 [torn. cit. p. 715). Yet it is not impossible that a Mindanao example of i. hartlauhi may have 

 been Sonnerat's type ; and this view is maintained by Mr. G. E. Gray in the Hand-list. But the 

 title of melanoptems, Scop., cannot be used, as it applies to two distinct species; therefore that 

 of hartlauhi, O. Finsch, will have, under any circumstances, to be adopted. 



What species Dr. v. Martens {torn. cit. p. 21, no 116) intended to indicate under the title of 

 Loriculus melanoptems (Scop.), it is impossible to determine. " Kehle blau, ein Flecken im 

 Nacken gelb," does not apply to any Loriculus that I am acquainted with. 



8. * Loriculus CHRTSONOTus. 



Loriculus chrysonotus, Sclater, Ibis, 1872, p. 323, pi. xi., " Zebu." 



Hab. Zebu {Meyer). 



The example referred to by Dr. O. Finsch (Papag. ii. p. 711) of i. regidus in the British 

 Museum, with nape and back golden, belongs probably to this species. 



The following eleven species of Parrots have been described or else enumerated as inhabi- 

 tants of the Philippines. 



(1) Petite Perruche de Visle de Lucon, premiere espece, Sonn. op. cit. p. 76, pi. 88. fig. inf 

 Psittacus pumiius, Scopoli, torn. cit. p. 87, no. 26 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 CorylUs galgulus (Linn.), O. Finsch, op. cit. ii. p. 699. 

 So far as is at present known, this species is restricted to Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



(2) Petite Perruche de Visle de Liigon, seconde espece, Sonn. op. cit. p. 76, pi. 38. fig. sup. 

 Psittacus leucophthalmus, Scopoli, torn. cit. p. 87, no. 25 (1786), ex Sonn. ; v. Martens, 



J. i. O. 1866, p. 22, no. 119, "Luzon." 



Psittacus simplex, Kuhl, Conspectus Psittac. p. 66, no. Ill (1820), ex Sonn. 

 Psittacula passerina (Linn.), O. Finsch, torn. cit. p. 648. 



