— 
a 
pian 
1862.] OF THE SULA ISLANDS, 337 
it after Dr. Sclater, the indefatigable Secretary to the Zoological 
Society of London, to whose kind assistance and extensive knowledge 
of ornithology I am much indebted. 
TRICHOGLOsSUS FLAVOVIRIDIS. (Pl. XXXIX.) 
Viridis ; capite, pectore et abdominis lateribus flavis ; pectoris 
plumis viridi marginatis ; abdomine flavo-viridi ; cauda subtus 
Susco-flava; rostro aurantiaco-rubro ; pedibus plumbeis. 
Grass-green ; head deep yellow, obscurely fasciated with dusky 
green, and bounded on the nape by a narrow dusky collar ; face, 
cheeks, and chin dusky olive, each feather margined with yellow; 
neck, breast, and upper part of the belly bright yellow, each feather 
narrowly margined with dark green, producing a regular scaly ap- 
pearance; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts yellowish green, more 
irregularly banded with dark green; between the shoulders the fea- 
thers have a yellow central band, forming a large spot more or less 
_ concealed by the arrangement of the plumage; quills dusky black, 
all but the first with the outer web green, and the first five with the 
extreme edge yellow; beneath, the secondaries and tertiaries have a 
yellow spot on the inner web; tail above of an ochreish green, be- 
coming ochre-yellow on the inner web of the lateral feathers, beneath 
entirely dull ochre-yellow ; bill orange-red ; orbits bare, yellow; feet 
lead-colour ; iris orange. 
Total length 8 inches; wing 43 inches; tail 34 inches. 
Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes (?). 
Remarks.—I obtained a bird in Menado, which, as far as my me- 
mory serves, was the same species as this; and one of my servants, 
a native of Menado, assured me the bird was foundthere. My speci- 
men was carried away by a rat, while drying, and was never recovered. 
There is therefore, 1 think, little doubt but this pretty species inha- 
bits N. Celebes ; but there, having to compete with 7’. ornatus, it is 
comparatively scarce, whereas in the Sula Islands it reigns alone, 
and is much more abundant. 
PLATYCERCUS DORSALIS, var. 
Psittacus dorsalis, Q. & G. Voy. de l Astrol. t. 21. f. 1. 
Rostrum aurantiaco-rubrum, apice corneo. 
This bird agrees with my specimens from New Guinea; but the 
bill in those is black, with a red spot at the base only, near the 
nostrils; in this variety the bill seems all reddish, except a pale tip 
and dusky portion at the sides of the upper mandible. This is a 
curious example of interrupted distribution, the Moluccas intervening 
with their distinct species, P. amboinensis in Ceram, and P. hypo- 
phonius in Gilolo. I can, however, discover no difference of plumage 
to separate the birds. 
Hab. Sula Islands and New Guinea. 
BaZA MAGNIROSTRIS. 
Pernis magnirostris, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 343. 
P. crassirostris, Kaup, Contr. to Orn. 1850, p. 77. 
Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes (Philippine Islands, B.M.). 
Proc. Zoot. Soc.—1862, No. XXII. 
