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Birds of Celebes: Loriidae. 
rentiated into peculiar species in islands lying within sight of one another, in 
many cases being protected against overcrowding by laying only one or two 
eggs, does not lend any support to such a view. 
According to the assurances of the best native hunter formerly in Dr. Meyer’s 
service, Eos histrio in Sangi, like Eos riciniata (Bechst.) of Ternate, lays either 
two eggs or only one; in the latter case the young one produced is said to be 
bigger (j 3). The allied E. ncbi^inosa of Ponape nests in holes in trees, laying 
only one egg (Finsch, J. f. O. 1880, 284). 
Eos histrio, according to Mr. Wallace (Geogr. Distr. I, 420), obliges us 
to place the Sangi Islands with the Moluccas instead of with Celebes; and this 
strange connection seems to be warranted by some other facts! 
GENUS TRICHOGLOSSUS Vig. Horsf. 
The species of this genus vary in size from that of a Lark to that of a 
Turtle-dove, the upper surface chiefly parrot-green; remiges below black or 
shining dusky grey; crossed with a band of yellow or red (not seen in the 
species which inhabit Celebes and Sula, except as an occasional remnant); tail 
strongly graduated; breast usually barred. About 16 species, ranging from 
xiustralia to New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, west through the Papuan 
Islands and the Amboina-group (but absent in the Halmahera-group), to Sula, 
Celebes, Timor. 
+ * 38. TRICHOGLOSSUS ORNATUS (L.). 
Ornate Lory. 
a. Psittacus ornatus (1) Linn., S. N. 1766,1, 143 (ex Seba, Briss.); (II) Shaw, G-en. Zool. 
1811, YHI, 416, pi. 60; (3) M. & S., Yerh. Natuurk. Comm. 1839-44, 90, 182; (4) 
S. Miill., Eeizen Ind. Archip. 1858, p]. H, 12; Eeinw., Eeis. Ind. Arcliip. in 1821, 
1858, 592. 
h. La Perruche Lori (I) Levaill., Perr. 1801, pi. 52. 
Trichoglossus ornatus (1) Gray, Gen. B. 1846, H, 411; S. Mull., Eeiz. Ind. Arch. 
1858, II, 69; (2) Eosenh., J. f. 0. 1862, 60 (Sula); (3) id., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1862, 
XXV, 139 (Sula); (4) Wall., P. Z. S. 1864, 291, 295; (5) ScliL, Mus. P.-B. Psittaci 
1864, 112; (6) Finsch, Papag. 1868, H, 842; (7) Finsch & Conrad, Y. z.-b. Ges. 
Wien 1873, 2, 15; (8) Schl., Mus. P.-B. Eev. Psitt. 1874, 49; (9) Salvad., Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, YII, 645; (10) Brligg., Abb. Yer. Bremen 1876, Y, 42; (11) 
Eosenh., Malay. Archip. 1878, 274; (12) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 53, 145; (13) Salvad., 
Orn. Pap. 1880, I, 299; (14) Echnw., J. f. 0. 1881, 160; id., Consp. Psitt. 1881, 
96; fXF) id., Yogelb. 1878-83, pi. Y I II, fig. 7; (16) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 
1885, 220; (17) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 544; id.. Cruise “Marchesa” 1886, 180; 
(XVIII) Meyer, Yogel-Skelett. 1884, pi. LXX; Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 230; 
(19) Salvad., Cat. B. 1891, XX, 61; (20) Blittik., Z. Erg. Weber’s Eeise Ost. -Ind. 
1893, in, 273; (21) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895 Nr. 8, p. 5; (22) iid., ib. 
1896 Nr. 2, p. 8; (23) Everett, Nov. Zool. 1896, 161; (XXIV) Mivart, Loriidae 
1896, 119, pi. XXXIX; (25) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1897, 159, 165. 
