50 Count Salvador! on a 



which were obtained by Mr, Powell, a companion of 

 Dr. Guillemard's, have on their labels the total length given 

 as 165 millimetres, while I find that they do not measure 

 more than 150 millimetres. From this it would appear that 

 my supposition of the labels having been wrongly attached 

 is not improbable. That the Sooloo bird has a black bill 

 when alive I have been assured by Mr. Everett, who had 

 seen a living cage-bird, brought over to the Philippines while 

 he was staying there. 



After all this, and in the face of such conflicting evidence, 

 I must stick to the facts that the bill of the specimens de- 

 scribed by De Souance was black, that it is black in each 

 of the four specimens examined by me, and black it is stated 

 to be by Mr. Everett in the living bird*. 



The Sooloo bird can be distinguished from the Philippine 

 Loriculus apicalis not only by the black bill, but also by 

 another character, and a very conspicuous one : the Sooloo 

 bird has the tail above dark green, with no blue tinge what- 

 ever towards the tips of the feathers, while in L. hartlaubi, 

 or more correctly L. apicalis, the tail-feathers always show 

 some traces of blue towards their tips. Also the red gular 

 patch is a little different in the two birds, being darker in 

 the Sooloo bird than in the other. 



The accompanying figures will make the bird under con- 

 sideration easily recognizable, I add the synonymy, a Latin 

 diagnosis, and a full description of 



Loriculus bonapartei, (Plate III.) 

 Loriculus bonapartei, Souance, Rev. et Mag, de Zool. 1856, 

 p. 222 ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 56 (1859) ; 



* Since this paper was writteti, I have received from the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild three additional specimens of L. bonapartei, one male and 

 two females ; these specimens were collected by Dr. Platen in the Sooloo 

 Islands, but are not mentioned in the recent article on the birds col- 

 lected in those islands by Dr. Platen, published in the ' Journal fiir 

 OiTiithologie,' 1890, pp. 137-144. In these birds the biU is black, and it 

 is described as ' schxoarz^ on the labels by Dr. Platen. I think that 

 this fact shows conclusively that some mistake happened when two of 

 Guillemard's specimens were labelled as having a red bill. 



