336 MR. A. R. WALLACE ON THE BIRDS [Dec. 9, 
There are in all thirteen new species described in the present 
paper, a few of which are also in my collections from Celebes and 
the Moluccas. In many cases I have given, from my own notes, the 
colours of the feet, bill, and iris, as well as the dimensions, from 
the fresh-killed specimens of rare or interesting species which have 
been previously described. In the following list of the species I have 
followed the arrangement of Bonaparte’s ‘ Conspectus,’ a work which 
is in the hands of every ornithologist. 
TANYGNATHUS ALBIROSTRIS. 
Psittacus sumatranus, Raffi. Linn. Trans. xiii. p. 281. 
T. macrorhynchos, 2, Blyth, Cat. p. 3. 
Psittacodis sumatranus, Wag]. 
Eclectus sumatranus, Gray, Gen. of Birds. 
I have obtained specimens of this bird from the south and north 
of Celebes and the Sula Islands. The bill is entirely white, with a 
semitransparent fleshy or waxy tinge when alive, in both sexes and 
in the fully adult bird; the tip alone is slightly dusky. The iris 
is very pale yellow or yellowish white, and the feet dull olive. The 
ery of this bird is different from that of T. miilleri, to which it is 
nearest ; and it is universally recognized by the natives of Celebes as 
another bird. 
As this species has received no other specific name than sumatranus, 
given to it by Sir Stamford Raffles, under the mistaken idea that it 
was an inhabitant of Sumatra, I have renamed it aléirostris from its 
most characteristic feature. However much I may reprobate the 
practice of needlessly changing specific names, I think that one so 
mischievously erroneous as the present must not be retained. Not 
only is the present bird and the whole genus to which it belongs ab- 
sent from Sumatra, but they inhabit another primary zoological 
division of the earth—the great Australian region, of which Celebes 
and the islands east of it form a part. 
Hab. The Celebes group. 
Loricutus sciaTeri. (Pl. XXXVIII.) 
Viridis; vitta gulari, flecura alarum, uropygio tectricibusque 
caude superioribus coccineis; macula magna dorsali rubra, 
aurantiaco marginata ; rostro nigro; pedibus luteis. 
Delicate green, rather deeper on the head and wings; forehead 
with a tinge of reddish brown; a stripe on the throat, a spot on the 
outer margin of the wing, the rump, and upper tail-coverts (which 
nearly reach the end of the tail) bright red ; a large spot on the back, 
extending in a triangle from between the shoulders to the red on the 
rump, orange-yellow, deepening in the middle to rich orange-red, 
which colour forms a band across the back ; wings and tail beneath 
blue; quills black, the outer edge green above, the inner edge blue 
beneath ; bill black; cere and base of the upper mandible yellow; 
feet yellow; iris yellow. 
Total length 54 inches; wing 34 inches; bill, to nostril, 3 inch. 
Hab. Sula Islands. 
Remarks.—In this fine species the sexes are alike. I have named 
