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Variety BONTH AI NE NSIS, 



(THE LORY OP BONTH A IN.) 

 [Plate XLL Figs. 2 and 3.] 



TricJiofflossiis meyeri, var. honthainensis, Meyer, Sitz. u. Abb. Ges. Isis, 1884, Abb. i. 

 p. 16; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 61 (note) (1891). 



No coloured band on the underside of the quills ; breast greenish yellow ; green bands of underparts 

 broad; a slightly marked collar of brighter green on the back of the neck. 



Habitat. Bonthain Mountain, South Celebes. 



This form is regarded by Mr. Meyer as rather a variety than a species, and we quite concur 

 in this opinion. As, however, it is a form inhabiting only the south of Celebes, and 

 Dr. Meyer deems that named after him to be confined to the north of that island, we 

 think it advisable to describe it separately, especially as we are able to give for the first 

 time a figure of it, and one taken from the type of the variety. 



Our ability to do this is owing to another act of kindness on the part of Dr. Meyer, who 

 has sent us a life-sized coloured drawing of it, executed under his careful supervision expressly 

 for this work. 



Dr. Meyer tells us that Messrs. Bibbe and Kiibn collected, in January 1883, a male 

 specimen of this form on the summit of the mountain of Bonthain. 



The undersides of the wings are blackish, not brownish as in T. meyeri. It is also 

 described by Dr. Meyer as differing from the last-named species in the following 

 particulars : — " The yellow colour of the head is less apparent, and not so sharply separated 

 from the green colour of the neck. The green colour of the back of the neck is brighter and 

 makes a kind of collar. The throat, the cheeks, and the sides of the neck are not undulated 

 with reddish yellow, but more bluish green ; the underside of the feathers of those parts is 

 blue and not yellow. The green bands of the underparts are broad. The yellow colour on 

 the lower back is less apparent." 



Length of the wing 4T2 inches, tail 2-83, bill - 66, tarsus - 47. 



The transverse bands of the drawing sent us by Dr. Meyer are certainly decidedly 

 broader than those of the specimens of P. meyeri in the British Museum. 



