ON THE GENUS LOEICULUS. 247 



Nasiterna. 



Loriculus: 



millim. 



millim. 



22-75 



24 



13-25 



14-33 



16-25 



18 



7-75 



8-33 



19 



22 



6 



8 



12-33 



13-25 



14 



15 



10 



11-50 



13-60 



14-75 



16 



18-50 



18-50 



20 



13-75 



16 



20 



23 



18 



18" 



" Greatest length of the skull . . . . . 

 Greatest breadth of the skull . . . . . 

 Length of the skull from the base of the bill 



Breadth of the orbit 



Length of the sternum ....... 



Greatest height of the crista sterni . . . 



Length of the coracoid . 



Length of the scapula 



Breadth of the pelvis . . . . . . . . 



Length of the humerus 



Length of the antebrachium 



Length of the manus 



Length of the femur 



Length of the ossa cruris ...... 



Length of the pes (excluding the nails) 



Professor Schlegel says (Nederl. T. v. d. Dierk. iii. 1865, p. 185 ; Obs. 

 Zool. i.):— 



" Loriculus exilis. 



^^ M. von Rosenberg sends us a series of specimens of a Loriculus^ 

 without any doubt, nev^ to science, and remarkable for its very small size as 

 w^ell as for its very simple coloration, offering no yellow tints, and the red 

 being restricted to the uropygium, the upper tail-coverts, and a small patch 

 on the throat. 



'^ Wings 2" 3" to 2" 6h'\ tail 15^ to 18'^ 



^' Bill and cere in the adult bright brick-red, in the young ones 

 brownish yellow. Feet and iris in the adult of a red colour, similar to 

 that of the bill, but paler; in the young greyish (yon Rosenberg). General 



