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also would appear to form a large part of their sustenance. T. ornatus feeds, 
“according to the season, on all possible fruits ; in captivity they prefer bananas 
above everything, but also like rice” (Meyer 12'). In S. Celebes Rib be & Kuhn 
found in its stomach the fruits and the seeds of trees. The local movements 
of the species are most likely regulated by the time of ripening of fruit, or 
of flowering of certain trees. Gould observed, as Dr. Finsch points out 
(1. c. 815), that certain Trichoglossi are more or less birds of passage: “a few 
species seem to make periodically settled wanderings from the South, where they 
breed, to the North, when they gather themselves into countless flocks, which, 
hasten through the air with rushing speed like a cloud in regular evolutions and 
accompanied by deafening cries”; but, as the author adds, nothing is known 
about similar migrations, if such there be, among the insular species. 
“T. ornatus smells, as all the allied parrots do, very agreeably of hyacinths” 
(Meyer 12). It is kept as a pet by the natives of Celebes, but also used as 
an article of food. 
f 39. TRICHOGLOSSUS FORSTENI Bp. 
Forsten’s Lory. 
Trichoglossus forsteni (1) Bp., Oonsp. Av. 1850, I, 3 (ex Temm. in Mas. Lugd.); (2) Finsch, 
Papag. n, 1868, 826; (3) Rchnw. , J. f. O. 1881, 157 (Consp. Psitt. 23) syn. emend.; 
(4) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 502; (5) Salvad., Cat. B. XX, 1891, 51; (VI) Mivart, 
Loriidae 1896, 93, pi. XXIX; (7) Hartert, Nov. ZooL 1896, 176, 572. 
a. Trichoglossus immarginatus (1) Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1858, XXYII, 279. 
For further synonymy and references see Salvador! 5. 
Figures and descriptions. Mivart FJ; Finsch 5; Reiclienow 5; Salvador! 5. 
Adult male. Above parrot-green; entire head, face, throat and mantle purple blackish 
blue, the forehead and cheeks striated with brighter blue, the feathers of the mantle 
with concealed red spots; around neck (not throat) a collar of greenish yellow; 
breast, sides, and under wing-coverts vermilion; abdomen blue-black; flanks, 
thighs, and under wing-coverts greenish yellow, barred with parrot-green; remiges 
below black, a hand or patch of yellow across the basal part of the inner webs: 
“hill red, yellow at tip; feet olive-green” (Guillemard 4). Wing 141 mm; tail 110; 
tarsus 17; hill from cere 18.5 [(^ nat. coll., Djampea Id., Dec. 1895: Everett, 0 14861). 
Sex. The sexes are closely similar in coloration (Finsch 2). 
Distribution. Sumhawa (Forsten 2, Guillemard 4)\ Djampea between Flores and Celebes 
(Everett 7). 
This Lory, previously known only from Sumbawa, was found recently to be 
common on Djampea Island by Mr. Everett, whose specimens were compared 
with the type of the species by Mr. Hartert who remarked that they were 
perfectly identical, but later found some slight difi’erences (see below). It is one 
of a group of eleven known species, with the head and cheeks blue or dusky 
(or for the most part of these colours) and having a yellow — in one case a red 
— band across the base of the remiges; they are found from Australia to 
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