ON THE GENUS LOHICULUS. 239 



In 'The Ibis/ 3rd ser. vol. iv. July 1874, p. 206, Dr. O. Finscli says :— 

 " Through the kindness of Count Hercules Turati, of Milan, I have 

 received for examination a pair of a species of Coryllis, from the island 

 of Negros, collected by Mr. A. B. Meyer in April 1872, which, after a careful 

 examination, I find to belong to C. regulus^ Souance, as already stated by 

 Dr. Sclater (Ibis, 1872, p. 324). In examining these specimens I find that 

 the true C. regulus^ described by Souance (from a male of unknown locality), 

 differs a good deal from the one described by me erroneously under this 

 appellation, from a specimen in the British Museum, brought by the late 

 Mr. Cuming from Mindanao. I therefore consider it necessary to separate 

 the two species as follows : — 



" 1. CORYLLIS REGULUS. 



'^ Loriculus regulus, Souance^ Eev. et Mag. Zool. 1856^ p. 222. 

 '^ Licmetulus regulus, Bp. Naiimania^, 1856^ Heft iv. 



'' Loriculus regulus, Martens, Journ. f. Orn. 1866, p. 21 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1872, p. 324 (Negros, 

 Panay). 



" Male, — Grass -green, nnderparts lighter ; front and sinciput bright 

 cinnabar-red, vertex golden yellow ; at the base of the nape a spot of dark 

 orange-red ; rump and upper tail-coverts dark scarlet-red ; a large oblong 

 gular patch bright cinnabar-red, with yellow base of feathers ; quills black, 

 on the outer web dark green, beneath ultramarine blue ; under wing-coverts 

 dark green ; tail-feathers dark green, beneath dark ultramarine blue ; bill 

 coral-red ; feet flesh-brown, nails dark. 



"Female, — Like the male; the forehead also red, but the vertex green, 

 with some yellow edgings of single feathers ; the feathers on the base of 

 mouth and around the lower mandible at their ends changing into light marine 

 blue ; the throat-patch not red, but greenish yellow, ill defined. Bill and 

 feet as in the male. 



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