136 VISCOUNT "WALDEN ON THE BIEDS 



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 ( ? Jide 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 tlie adult L. 2^^iilip]}ensis 6 , the golden occipital patch of the adult male being 

 absent, while the golden nuchal stripe is fully developed. A fourth example ( ? Jide 

 Meyer) has the entire body green, with the exception of the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, which are scarlet. 



7. * LOEICULUS HARTLAUBI. 



Coryllis hartlauU, O. Finsch, Monogr. Papag. ii. p. 701, "Mindanao" (1868). 



Loriculus melanopterus (Scop.), G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 55, fide O. Finsch, I. c. 



Loriculus ajncalis, Souance, G. R. Gray, torn. cit. p. 56, fide O. Finsch I. c. nee Souance. 



? Petite Perruche de I'isle de Lucon, Sonu. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 77, pi. 40. fig. inf. J . 



^. Psittacus melanopterus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 86, no. 23, S (1~86), ex Sonn. 



Loriculus melanopterus et apicalis, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, uos. 8175, 8176. 



Loriculus apicalis, Souance, v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 21, no. 115, nee Souance. 



JIai. Mindanao {Cuming). 



The above title was founded by Dr. 0. Finsch {I. c.) 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 {I. c.) had identified with P. melano])terus, Scopoli, and 

 the other with L. apicalis, Souance. The last title belongs with little doubt to 

 L. indicus (Gm.) (conf. O. Finsch, torn. cit. p. 718). The former is based on the two 

 figures given by Sonnerat in his 40th plate (to7n. cit.). These two figures, thougli 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 tliroat and 

 the feathers surrounding the base of the bill red, and in having a yellow spot on the 

 back of the neck. If it had been made clear by Somierat 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 oi L. ])liilij)iiensis; 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 



