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. (PI. XXXIX.) 



Viridis ; capita, pectore et abdominis lateribus flavis ; pectoris 

 plumis viridi marginatis ; abdomine flavo-viridi ; cauda subtus 

 fusco-Jlava i 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 4|- inches ; tail 3-\ inches. 



ffab. 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 found there. My speci- 

 men was carried away by a rat, while drying, and was never recovered. 

 There is therefore, I think, little doubt but this pretty species inha- 

 bits N. Celebes ; but there, having to compete with T. 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 I'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. crassirosti'is, Kaup, Contr. to Orn. 1850, p. 77. 

 Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes (Philippine Islands, B.M.). 

 Proc. Zool. SOC.--1862, No. XXII. 



