1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 81f) 



6. LoRicuLus HARTLAUBi (7). (Plate LXXXII.) 



Cory His hartlaubi, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 711. 



1 Loriculus indicus (^xhs.) ; Souance, var. A, S , Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1856, p. 220, partim. 



1 Loriculus cyanolcemus, Bp. Tab. Uebers. d. Papag. no. 248, 

 Naumniania, 1856, Heft iv. ex Souance, I. c. 



? Loriculus apicnlis, Souance, I. c. 



Loriculus 7nelanopterus (Scopoli), G. R. Gray, List PsittacidEe B. 

 Mus. p. 55 (1859), nee Scop. 



Loriculus apicalis, Souance, G. R. Gray, t, c. p. 56. 



[Butuan, cj (immature), May. Iris brown ; bill red-orange ; 

 feet orange. Placer, S (^^early adult), July. Bill deep red ; cere 

 orange. S (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'. 



When seen from above, every one of these twenty-one examples 

 exhibits a similar distribution of markings and colour, the latter 

 varying in intensity according to age, but not according to sex ; so 

 that all are readily to be recognized as belonging to one species. The 

 whole top and back of the head is bright cherry-red, almost of the 

 same shade as in L. indicus. The nape is pure golden-orange in 

 adults of both sexes. The back is green, more or less washed with 

 yellow, and in adults ( d $ ) with golden. In all, the uropygium and 

 upper tail-coverts are rich crimson. Adolescence in both sexes, 

 when seen from above, is betrayed by the crown-feathers being 

 green at their insertions and tipped with orange, instead of cherry- 

 red, and by the back being pure green and not suffused with yellow, 

 the uropygium being of a less intense crimson, mixed more or less 

 with green. 



Seen from below, two well-marked phases of plumage are repre- 

 sented, apart from the intermediate grades which characterize nonage. 

 In one phase the cheeks, chin and upper throat, superciliaries, and 

 lores are pale blue, the lower throat, breast, and abdomen light green 

 or yellow-green. In the other phase the supercilium, lores, cheeks, 

 chin, throat, and under surface generally are of a full sap-green, with 

 the exception of a crimson, lengthened, pectoral plastron, quadrate 

 below, and diminishing gradually to a narrow gular stripe, reaching 

 almost to the chin. AH the examples marked ? (6) belong to the 

 first category, as well as some marked c? (5). All those with the 

 crimson pectoral mark, or with the slightest trace of red on the breast 

 or throat, are marked male. So distinct a species do the individuals 

 falling under one or other of the two categories appear, that, were it 

 not for several examples in the series marked S exhibiting every 

 gradation of the crimson pectoral mark, from a solitary crimson 



' Although I propose to give in a future paper a separate account of the 

 birds collected in Dinagat, it being a distinct Philippine island, it will be more 

 convenient when treating of this little-known species to include the Dinagat 

 examples. 



