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1. PSITTEUTELES FL A V VIRID I S. 



(THE YELLOW-GREEN LORY.) 

 [Plate XL.] 



Trichoglossm flavoviridis, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 337, pi. xxxix., 1861, pp. 292, 295 



(partim); Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 819 (1868). 

 Psitteateles flavoviridis, Salvadori, Cat, of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 63 (1891). 



No coloured band on the underside of the quills ; breast bright yellow. 

 Habitat. Sula Islands. 



This bird, which is the Lory of the Sula Islands, where it abounds, was thought by 

 Br. Wallace to be probably an inhabitant of Celebes. He made this conjecture because he 

 had obtained at Menado a bird which one of his servants told him was a native of the place. 

 His specimen, however, was unfortunately, while drying, carried away by a rat. It was 

 never recovered, so that it was only " as far as his memory served him " that he deemed it to 

 be P. flavoviridis. 



The back and wings are grass-green, but the feathers of the interscapular region have 

 bands of yellow almost wholly concealed. The forehead, vertex, and occiput are yellow, 

 obscurely marked with dusky green, most so on the occiput. The cheeks, ear-coverts, and 

 chin are yellow and green, the feathers being margined with the former tint. On the nape 

 is a dusky collar, which contrasts sharply with the yellow of the occiput and ear-coverts. 

 The throat, the breast, and the middle of the abdomen are bright yellow, with curved 

 transverse bands of green, each feather having a rather dark green margin, so that a scaly 

 appearance is produced. The lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts are yellowish 

 green, traversed by wider transverse bands, the green margins of the feathers being here 

 broader. The thighs are yellow, banded with green. The quills are dusky black, with green 

 on the outer webs, and the outermost quills have the extreme edge yellowish. The under 

 wing-coverts are greenish yellow. The tail above is, like the uropygium, ochrish green, the 

 inner web of the lateral tail-feathers being more yellow. Beneath, the tail is entirely of a 

 dull ochre-yellow. The bill is orange-red, the feet grey, and the iris orange. 



Total length 8 - 5 inches, wing 4 - 8, tail 32, bill 0-72, tarsus 0-51. 



The type of the species (represented in our Plate) is in the National Collection, where 

 there are five specimens. In two of them the collar is but little marked, and in three the 

 pileum has more dark spots than in the other two. 



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