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pared with actual Mindanao examples their identity must continue doubtful. The 
peculiarly restricted ranges of the different Philippine species of Loriculus render it 
not unlikely that Cuming’s specimens, if really indigenous to Mindanao, may belong to 
a representative form. 
Three examples ( ? jde Meyer) are without the orange-red pectoral plastron. In one 
a large yellow patch replaces the orange-red plastron of the male. In another this 
yellow space is less distinctly indicated ; and in this specimen the feathers surrounding 
the base of the mandible, and the feathers of the throat, are verditer blue. The 
remaining under surface of these three examples is more or less light yellow-green, and 
not dark grass-green as in the adult male. Above the female is hardly distinguishable 
from the adult L. philippensis 3, the golden occipital patch of the adult male being 
absent, while the golden nuchal stripe is fully developed. A fourth example (9 fide 
Meyer) has the entire body green, with the exception of the rump and upper tail- 
coyverts, which are scarlet. 
7. * LoRICULUS HARTLAUBI. 
Coryllis hartlaubi, O. Finsch, Monogr. Papag. ii. p. 701, “ Mindanao” (1868). 
Loriculus melanopterus (Scop.), G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 55, fide O. Finsch, /. ¢. 
Loriculus apicalis, Souancé, G. R. Gray, tom. cit. p. 56, fide O. Finsch /. c. nec Souancé. 
? Petite Perruche de Visle de Lugon, Sonn. Voy. Nouy. Guin. p. 77, pl. 40, fig. inf. g. 
? Psittacus melanopterus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 86, no. 23, ¢ (1786), ex Sonn. 
Loriculus melanopterus et apicalis, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, nos. 8175, 8176. 
Loriculus apicalis, Souancé, v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 21, no. 115, nee Souancé. 
Hab. Mindanao (Cuming). 
The above title was founded by Dr. O. Finsch (J. ¢.) on some examples of a Lorikeet 
obtained by Mr. Cuming in Mindanao, and contained in the British Museum. One of 
these individuals Mr. G. R. Gray (/. c.) had identified with P. melanopterus, Scopoli, and 
the other with Z. apicalis, Souancé. ‘The last title belongs with little doubt to 
L. indicus (Gm.) (conf. O. Finsch, tom. cit. p. 718). The former is based on the two 
figures given by Sonnerat in his 40th plate (tom. cit.). These two figures, though given by 
Sonnerat as representing the two sexes of a Luzon parrot, belong clearly to two distinct 
species. The so-called male is described by that author as having the top of the head 
red, and the throat blue; while the female is said to differ in having the throat and 
the feathers surrounding the base of the bill red, and in having a yellow spot on the 
back of the neck. Ifit had been made clear by Sonnerat that the summit of the head 
in his so-called female was also red, there would be no difficulty in showing that he was 
describing an example of L. philippensis; and to that species I have already referred his 
upper figure, although with doubt. The so-called male, represented by the lower figure, 
on the whole appears to agree best with L. indicus; and to this species Dr. O. Finsch 
