^^^ ON THE GENUS LORICULUS. 



who visited, among others, the island of Buton, in the south-east, nor the 

 Itahan naturalist, Beccari, who recently went to the south-eastern peninsula 

 Itself, report, as far as I am aware, a Loriculus from there. 



''The part of Celebes which lies between the Togian and the Sula 

 Islands, the north-eastern peninsula, is called Bangai. Walden (Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. vol. ix. 1872, p. 398) erroneously says, 'Bangaai 

 and Ternate.' Ternate is an island near Halmahera ; but Bangai belongs to 

 the Government of Ternate. About this part of the island I cannot give any 

 mformation. It would be a very interesting point to ascertain which species 

 lives there ; for if it be L, stigmatus, the two aUied forms, L. sckteri and 

 Z. quadricolor, will prove to be insular forms derived from a parent stock, 

 L. stigmatus, both changed in a somewhat similar manner, perhaps through 

 the same (say ' insular ') conditions, but not in quite the same manner. If, 

 on the other hand, the species which inhabits Bangai should prove to be not 

 L, stigmatus, it would certainly be of interest to know whether it is £. sclateri 

 or Z. quadricolor, or (as is possible) a form which is intermediate between 

 these two. 



'' But to return to Loriculus stigmatus. The bird lives singly or in pairs, 

 not in flocks. It feeds on soft fruits, as bananas and the like, and therefore 

 is to be found in the plantations near the villages. In the beginning of 

 March of the year 1871 it was especially plentiful near Manado; but I got 

 it throughout the Minahassa, and during the whole time of my stay (from 

 December tillJuly)— further, in August, on the south shore of the Bay of 

 Tomini and near the lake of Limbotto, in the district of Gorontalo. 



'' In the month of March a native of Manado brought to my house a 



young female of L. stigmatus alive, about a fortnight old. It- was quite 



^ green, except its light-yellow shoulder-edges ; underparts lighter green ; 



