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249. LORICULUS CHRYSONOTU8 Sclater. 



CEBU COLASISI. 



Loriculus chrysonotus SCLATER, Ibis (1872), 324, pi. 11; SALVADOBI, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 522; SHABPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 36; 

 McGBEGOB and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 50. 



Co-lan'-si, Toledo, Cebu. 



Cebu (Meyer, Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 



"Adult male (type). Green, underneath yellowish green; forehead, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts red; vertex, occiput, nape, and upper back 

 golden yellow; an obsolete spot in the middle of the nape, also the 

 upper back, tinged with orange; cheeks, sides of- the head and of the 

 neck grass-green; a large patch on the throat orange-red, the yellov/ 

 color of the base of the feathers showing through ; sides of the lower back 

 tinged with blue; quills and tail above dark green; inner web of the 

 quills and tail beneath blue; tail-feathers tipped with light green. 'Iris 

 brown; bill orange-red; feet orange/ (Everett.) Length, 157; wing, 

 99; tail, 51; bill, 15; tarsus, 11. 



"Adult female. Differs from the male in having the anterior part of 

 the cheeks and throat tinged with blue ; no red patch on the throat ; the 

 golden yellow tinge on the head and nape not so bright ; the upper back, 

 or interscapular region, green, slightly washed with golden orange, and 

 the blue tinge on the sides of the lower back paler." (Salvadori.) 



"This was the only Loriculus which we failed to find abundantly in 

 coconut-trees where the trees themselves were accessible. In 1888 several 

 days of hard work in the great coconut-groves near Carmen, Cebu, 

 brought us but a single specimen. In 1893, however, we found it quite 

 abundant in the woods near Toledo. It is possible that its disappearance 

 from the coconut-groves of the east coast is due to the lack of suitable 

 breeding ground near by. The forest has been almost entirely cleared 

 from the island, and the little which remains will soon be gone. 



"Five males average, 154 in length; wing, 96; tail, 54; culmen, 14; 

 tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 19. Five females, length, 157; wing, 

 97; tail, 55; culmen, 13; tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 20. Iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet orange-red; nails black; bill usually scarlet, may 

 be pale red or even yellow." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



250. LORICULUS REGULUS Souancl. 

 CENTRAL ISLAND COLASISI. 



Loriculus regulus SOUANCE, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (1856), 222; SALVADORI, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 523; SHAKPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 

 36; MCGBEGOB and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 50. 



Loriculus panaycnsis TWEEDDALE, Challenger Report (1881), 2, Zool. pt. 

 8, pi. 1. 



Co-si, Ticao and Masbate. 



