1877.] THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO (N.E.). 545 



Our bird has one side of the upper breast blue-edged, which yours has not." Mr. Sharpe adds 

 that the British-Museum skin has the bill coral-red ; so that probably this Philippine species, 

 which is a representative form of T. muelleri, has either a red or a white bill, like the Celebesian 

 species (conf. Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 31)*. The blue edgings on the upper breast of the Samar 

 bird do not occur in T. muelleri. 



5. Ctclopsitta lunulata (4). 



[Butuan, <S , May. Iris dark brown; bill black; the base of maxilla light grey; feet 

 greenish.] 



Seven examples from Surigao and three from Butuan are sent by Mr. Everett, and they 

 cannot be specifically separated from Luzon individuals. Only one is marked $ , and it has a 

 lunated collar and crescentic markings on the lower back ; some of the necklace-plumes blue on 

 their under surface. Five examples are of adults (marked c?) with blue collars, the lower back 

 bright yellow-green and no crescentic markings. Four (marked 6) are immature birds, with 

 mixed blue and lunated collars, and with traces, more or less, of crescentic markings on the 

 lower back. These last examples establish the identity of C. lunulata and C. loxias ; but the 

 question whether the lunulata plumage belongs to adult females as well as to immature males 

 still remains open. Some of the collar-plumes of the only female in the collection being blue 

 underneath perhaps indicates a state of transition to the loxias dress. None of the adult males 

 have the whole face, lores, and ophthalmic region blue, as is the case in two Luzon individuals 

 killed in January. 



6. LoEicuLus HAETLATJBi (7). (Plate LXXXII. in orig.) P.Z.S.1877, 

 Coryllis hartlauli, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 711. 



ILoriculus indicus (Briss.) ; Souance, var. A, cJ , Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 220, 

 partim. 



ILoriculus ctjanolcemus, Bp. Tab. Uebers. d. Papag. no. 248, Naumannia, 1856, Heft iv. ex 

 Souance, I. c. 



■? Loriculus apicalis, Souance, I. c. 



Loriculus inelano])terus (Scopoli), G, E. Gray, List Psittacidse B. Mus. p. 55 (1859), nee Scop. 



Loiiculus aj)icalis, Souance, G. R. Gray, t. c. p. 56. 



[Butuan, d (immature), May. Iris brown ; bill red-orange ; feet orange. Placer, <s (nearly 

 adult), July. Bill deep red ; cere orange. d (immature), July. Bill orange-red ; cere light 

 brown.] 



The series consists of twenty-one examples of both sexes, the colour of the bill being red 

 or orange-red in all. Ten are from Butuan, one from Surigao, four from Placer, and six from 

 Dinagat f . 



When seen from above, every one of these twenty-one examples exhibits a similar distribution 

 qtf markings and colour, the latter varying in intensity according to age, but not according to 



* Anted, p. 135.— Ed.] 



t Although I propose to give in a future paper a separate account of the birds coUected in Dinagat, it being a distinct 

 Philippine island, it wiU be more convenient when treating of this little-known species to include the Dinagat examples. 



