ON THE GENUS LOEICULUS. 243 



(Hand-list, no. 8182). Dr. Meyer's Negros specimens agree well with the 

 original description of L. regulus ; and to that species I provisionally refer 

 them ; but until they are compared with actual Mindanao examples their 

 identity must continue doubtful. The peculiarly restricted ranges of the 

 different Philippine species of Loriculus render it not unlikely that Cuming's 

 specimens, if really indigenous to Mindanao, may belong to a representative 

 form. 



^' Three examples (^2 fide Meyer) are without the orange-red pectoral 

 plastron. In one a large yellow patch replaces the orange-red plastron of 

 the male. In another this yellow space is less distinctly indicated ; and in 

 this specimen the feathers surrounding the base of the mandible, and the 

 feathers of the throat, are verditer blue. The remaining under surface of 

 these three examples is more or less light yellow- green, and not dark grass- 

 green as in the adult male. Above, the female is hardly distinguishable 

 from the adult Z. philippensis c?, the golden occipital patch of the adult 

 male being absent, while the golden nuchal stripe is fully developed. A fourth 

 example ($ fide Meyer) has the entire body green, with the exception of the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, which are scarlet." 



There is a very good map to this article — one extremely useful to the 

 reader. 



LORICULUS EXILIS, Schlegel. 

 (Plate LIX.) 



Loriculus exilis, Schlegel^ Nederl. T. v. Dierk. iii. p. 185 (1865) ; Walden^ Trans. Zool. Soc. 



viii. p. 32 (1872) ; ScMeg. Mus. P.-B. Eev. Psitt. p. 60 (1874). 

 Coryllis exilis, Fmsch_, Papag. ii. p. 729 (1868). 



I ask my readers (and among them are those well qualified to decide). 

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