398 Viscount Walden on supposed new Species of Birds 



XLII. — On some supposed new Species of Birds from Gelehes 

 and the Togian Islands. By Aethur, Viscount Walden, 

 P.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 The following five species of birds were obtained bj Dr. 

 Meyer, three on the mainland of Celebes and two in the small 

 islands of the Togian or Schildpad group in the Gulf of To- 

 mini or Gorontalo. That two distinct species should inhabit 

 these small land-locked islands and yet not be known to occur 

 on the neighbouring mainland of Celebes is another of those 

 instances of the isolation of species and their restriction to small 

 areas so numerous in the Indian archipelago. One of the 

 two species belongs to a genus, Griniger^ not as yet observed 

 in Celebes although occurring in the Sula Islands. The other 

 is a Loriculus, combining some of the characters of the Sula 

 species, L. Sclateri, with those of the Celebean, L. stigmatus. 

 It is, however, not improbable that these Togian species, al- 

 though not found in North Celebes (Gorontalo, Minahasa), 

 may yet be proved to inhabit the more southerly eastern limb 

 (Bangaai and Ternate), a mountainous and as yet unexplored 

 region. 



Loriculus qiiadricolor ^ n. sp. 



Adult male. Bright green ; crown and edge of shoulder 

 scarlet ; rump, upper tail-coverts, chin, and throat deep blood- 

 red ; interscapulars and back bright golden ; quills black, 

 half the inner web of each quill verditer blue ; entire under 

 surface of rectrices verditer blue ; bill black, feet yellow. 



Malcj immature. Faint indications of a few scarlet feathers 

 on the forehead ; a small red spot on the throat ; edge of the 

 shoulder scarlet mixed with yellow ; upper tail-coverts and 

 rump and remainder of plumage as in the adult. This stage 

 closely resembles the adult plumage oiL. Wallacei, G.R. Gray. 



Male, still younger. Forehead, throat-spot, and edge of wing 

 yellow, mixed with minute traces of scarlet ; rump mixed 

 red and green ; upper tail-coverts as in adult ; intersca- 

 pulars golden ; remainder of plumage of a less bright green 

 than in adult. 



Female. The only example sent and thus marked by Dr. 

 Meyer is not quite adult. The head is entirely green, the 

 chin and throat scarlet, the shoulder-edge yellow, inter- 

 scapulars golden, back mixed green and golden, remainder 

 of plumage as in adult male. 



Longitudo 

 Rostr. a nar. Alae. 



S adult . . 0-37 3-69 



$ 0-31 3-50 



