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, R,affl. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 281. 



T. macrorhynchos, 5, Blyth, Cat. p. 3. 



Psittacodis sumatranus, Wagl. 



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 

 cry 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 albirostris 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 apart. 



Hab. The Celebes group. 



LORICULUS SCLATERI. (PI. XXXVIII.) 



Viridis ; vitta gulari, Jlexura alarum, uropygio tectricibusque 

 caudcB superioribus cocchieis ; 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 5^ inches ; wing 3| inches ; bill, to nostril, | inch. 



Hab. Sula Islands. 



Remarks. — In this fine species the sexes are alike. I have named 



