ON 



A FEW SPECIES 



BELONGING TO 



THE GENUS LORICULUS. 



By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY, 



Before describing the following birds, it might be convenient that we should 

 take a brief view of the genus Loriculus, on which subject Dr. Meyer has 

 provided me with some observations. 



Dr. Meyer remarks thus :— 



" There are eighteen species of the genus Loriculns, Blyth, now known. 

 Dr. Finsch, in his celebrated monograph on the Psittacidae, in the year 1868, 

 only mentions thirteen Q Die Papageien/ ii. p. 694). Since then have been 

 discovered Loriculus catamene, Schlegel, from the Sangi Islands, and Loriculus 

 aurantiifronSy Schlegel, from the island of Mysol, by Hoedt, in the years 1865 

 and 1867 respectively, Loriculus quadricolor, Walden, from theTogian Islands, 

 and Loriculus chrysonotus, Sclater, from Cebu, by myself in the years 1871 and 

 1872; Y^iAe Loriculus occipitalis^ irom. Mindanao, has been separated from 

 Loriculus regulus, Souance, from Negros and Panay, by Dr. Finsch in the year 

 1874. 



'' The at present known eighteen species are the following : — 



" 1. Loriculus vernalis (Sparrm.). 



'^ Coryllis vernalis , Finscli^, Pap. ii. p. 721. 



'' Hab. India. 



