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time at the village of Djilolo, situated in a bay on the northern peninsula. Here I obtained 

 a kouse through the kindness of the Resident of Ternate, who sent orders to prepare one for 

 me. The first walk into the unexplored forests of a new locality is a moment of intense 

 interest to the naturalist, as it is almost sure to furnish him with something curious or 

 hitherto unknown. The first thing I saw here was a flock of small Parroquets, of which I 

 shot a pair, and was pleased to find a most beautiful little long-tailed bird, ornamented with 

 green, red, and blue colours, and quite new to me. It was a variety of the Charnwsyna 

 placentis, one of the smallest and most elegant of the brush-tongued Lories." 



The upper parts are of a lively green, save that there is a large bright blue spot in the 

 region of the uropygium. The pileum is yellowish green. The sides of the face and the 

 throat are bright scarlet, behind which brilliant jmtch of colour is a not less brilliant patch 

 of blue covering the ears. The underparts from the red throat to (and including) the under 

 tail-coverts are yellowish green, but the sides of the breast and the flanks are scarlet. The 

 quills are dusky, but all save the first two have part of their inner web yellow, thus forming 

 a yellow transverse band on the underside of the wing, with black in front of and behind it. 

 The under wing-coverts are scarlet. 



The tail, which is very distinctly graduated, is green above, save that the two middle 

 feathers are tipped with red. Beneath the tail-feathers are red at the base, then black, while 

 they are yellow towards the tips. Thus when the tail is expanded it appears traversed by a 

 black mark in the form of the letter V, with its apex posterior. 



The bill, cere, and feet are represented (by Dr. Platen's label above referred to) as red, 

 and the iris as yellow (probably orange-yellow). 



The total length is 7'2 inches, wing 3 - 75, tail 4, bill Oo, tarsus 0-4. 



The female differs from the male in having the pileum dark green instead of yellowish 

 green, in being devoid of the bright blue patch on the ear-coverts, which are green with 

 radiating narrow yellow streaks, and in haviag the cheeks and under wing-coverts of a light 



green. 



There are fifteen skins of this species in the British Museum. 



