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green, the latter with a tinge of golden. The bastard-wing and primary-coverts are blackish 

 with some purplish blue. The bend of the wing is yellow. The quills are blackish, externally 

 grass-green. The under wing-coverts and axillaries are yellow. The lower greater coverts 

 are blackish. The quills are black beneath, except that the greater part of the inner webs 

 are bright red. 



The bill is orange-red. and the feet are dusky ; the iris is dark yellow ; the skin round 

 the eye and the cere are bluish black. 



Total length 11 inches, wing 6, tail 4, culmen 1*05, tarsus 0"75. 



Of the skins in the National Collection all have the yellow patch well marked. 



The distribution of this species is singular, inhabiting as it does small islands at the 

 extreme north and the extreme south of Halmahera, as well as Batchian on its south-west. 

 Batchian is the farthest limit westwards to which the genus Lorius is known to extend. 



