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Birds of Celebes; Loriidae. 
Island (Nat. Coll.); Togian Islands (Meyer 12 )\ E. Celebes — Balante and Tonkean 
(Nat. Coll); S. E. Peninsula — Kandari (Beccari b); Baton (S. Miiller 5, 4 , 5); 
West Celebes (Doherty 25 )\ South Peninsula — Bonthain (Weber 20 , Bibbe & Klilin 
in Dresd. Mus.); Macassar (Bernst. <S, Wall. 15); Boni (Mus. Leyd. 5); Tjainba (Platen 
16 )] Sula Islands — Peling and Banggai (Nat. Coll.). 
Von Rosenberg first recorded the Sula Islands as a locality for this species 
on information of one of the native chiefs of the islands (3 j, but there was no 
evidence in proof of the correctness of this till sjoecimens were obtained by our 
native hunters in Banggai and Peling. The hunter Kamis Birahi, who accom- 
panied Bernstein, Wallace, v. Rosenberg and Meyer on some of their 
journeys, and who visited Sula, informed Meyer that T. ornatiis did not occur 
in Sula. 
It has not been recorded from Sangi, but Meyer received a specimen from 
Siao not differing in plumage from those of Celebes (MS. note), though this may 
have been from captivity. 
As Dr. Einsch remarks Celebes forms the north-westernmost boundary 
of the genus Trichoglossus (the Wedge-tailed Lories) viewed as composed of Prof. 
Reichenow’s subgeneric groups Glossopsittacus, Charmosgna, Oreopsittacus, Neo- 
psittacus and Trichoglossus. Two of Prof. Reichenow’s groups are further sub- 
divided by Count Salvadori (Cat. B. XX, 1891): — Charmosgna into Hypo- 
charmosyna, Charmosynopsis, Charmosyna] and Neopsittacus into Psitteuteles, Ptilo- 
sclera and Neopsittacus, but the last named genus, according to Salvadori, does 
not belong to the Loriidae at all, but to the Cyclopsittacidae. The Blue-headed 
group of Wedge-tailed Loris, to which T. ornatus belongs, ranges, as Count 
Salvadori shows, from Celebes throughout most of the intervening islands to New 
Caledonia and the New Hebrides, occurring also in the Lesser Sunda Islands and 
Australia. Curiously enough it is absent, so far as is yet known, in the Hal- 
mahera group, just as it is in Sangi. 
The Blue-headed Lory of Celebes is a very distinct species, differing from 
all its fellows in having the cheeks, chin and throat red instead of blue, and the 
quills below uniform shining brownish smoke-grey, instead of having only their 
distal part of this colour and their basal jjart orange-yellow or red. Its nearest 
allies appear to be T. massena Bp. of S. E. New Guinea, New Britain and 
the neighbouring islands as far as the New Hebrides, and T. cyanogrammus 
Wagl. of Western Papuasia as far as Burn. 
Although confined to Celebes, T. ornatus, like some of the Trichoglossi of 
Australia, is hy no means a strictly sedentary bird in the island, where it is 
the commonest parrot. Meyer found it at all times and everywhere in the 
Minahassa from January till July; at Limbotto in August; near Gorontalo in 
September; on the Togian Islands in August; in South Celebes in October and 
November. About the end of March, 1871, it suddenly appeared in crowds in 
the neighbourhood of Manado. The Trichoglossi feed largely on the dews of 
flowers, using the tongue in a licking manner (Einsch, Papag. II, 816); fruit 
