126 DOMICELLA COCCINEA. 



green colour of the wings is totally different. Latham saw the bird only 

 once living." 



Measurements (p. 810) :—" Wings 5" 10'" to 6" 2'", tail 4" 4'" to 4" 7'"." 



Schlegel, Mus. P,-B., Psitt. 1864, p. 128 :— 

 " LoRius cocciNEUs, Stephens. 



" Middle of the crown of the head, region of the ears, lower part of the 

 back of the neck, mantle, and breast cobalt-blue ; feathers of the shoulder, 

 feet, and abdomen blackish, more or less cobalt-blue ; wing-coverts and 

 secondaries red, these last terminated with black. Wing a little more than 

 6", tail 4" 4'". 



" Inhabits the Sanghir Islands, between Celebes* and Mindanao. 



" Collected by Forsten and Wallace." 



The same, Psitt. Rev. 1874, p. 58 :— 



" Collected by Hoedt and Duyvenbode on Siao." 



Dr. Meyer remarks : — 



" Domicella coccinea, from the Sanghi Islands, to the north of Celebes, 

 must be considered an outlying Moluccan form, no allied species occurring 

 on the Philippine Islands or on Celebes. It is true the bird has been 

 recorded several times as also living on the last-named islands ; and, no doubt, 

 it has been shot near Manado, in the north of the Minahassa. I myself got 



* [The name Celebes has long been a puzzle to me. It is said to be derived from " sula," an 

 island, and "besi/' iron, just as we have the Sula Islands east of Celebes. Some writers, knowing 

 the above, make it " Selebes " (but it is always better to retain the received spelling ; so I have 

 kept to "Celebes") — the iron island. Its strange and remarkable shape must strike every 

 observer. — Editor or 0. M.] 



