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Birds of Celebes; Psittacidae. 
“Lusint”, Great Saiigi, Platen d 1. 
“Lunsihi”, Great Sangi, Nat. Coll. 
Figures and descriptions. Powley III] Schlegel 1] Eeichenow h 1] Platen d 1] 
W. Blasins 6\ Salvador! 7. 
Adult male. Bright parrot-green, lighter and washed with yellowish on the under surface; 
sinciput (a short cap), lower hack, rump and upper tail-coverts (which 
extend heyond the tip of the tail) poppy-red; a spot of the same colour on the 
middle of the throat; under tail-coverts — longer than the tail — scarlet, 
the extreme edges of the feathers yellow-green; the exposed outer webs and 
ends of quills above green, the inner webs black; the inner webs, as far as they 
rest upon the sides of the body, bright verditer-hlue, the external part of the feathers 
black; under wing-coverts varied with yellow-green and verditer-hlue (Great 
Sangi: — Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 1299). “Iris yellow or orange-red; hill black; 
cere brownish yellow; feet yellow-orange or orange” (Platen 6). 
Adult female. Like the male, but the head all green, without the cap of poppy-red; the 
under tail-coverts yellow-green with scarlet intermixed (Great Sangi: — Mus. 
Nehrk., Nr. 1300). “Iris brown or light brown; bill black; cere brownish yellow; 
feet yellow-orange or orange” (Platen 6). 
Young male. Like the adult female; not a trace of red on the head; the under tail-coverts 
approaching those of the adult male in intensity of colour (W. Bias! us 6). Iris 
light brown; hill black. 
Young female. In two young females the red throat-spot is much less developed than in the 
adult of both sexes; the upper tail-coverts red, the ends of them reaching far short 
of the tip of the tail ; the under tail-coverts green-yellowish with rather broad reddish 
tips: in one with the shortest upper tail-coverts the hill is yellowish; in the other 
dark brown. Iris brown (W. Blasius 6). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Culmen 
from cere 
a. (Mus. Nehrk. 1299) (^] Great Sangi 
82 
45 
9 
10 
h. (Mus. Nehrk. 1300) Q, Great Sangi 
84 
42 
9 
10 
c. (Nr. 1740) Q, Great Sangi 
80 
41 
9 
— 
d. (0 12699) [q^] ad. Great Sangi, 15. VH. 93 ... . 
85 
43 
9.5 
11 
e. (Mus. Tring) [Q] ad. Great Sangi, 17. YH. 93 . . 
84 
40 
— 
10 
f. (0 12698) imm. Great Sangi, 17. YH. 93 
83 
38 
— 
10 
Distribution. Great Sangi Island (Hoedt i, ZZJ, Meyer 4, Platen r/ i, d, Nat. Coll.). 
This little Parrot is only known from the principal island of the Sangi 
Group, where it was first discovered in 1864 by Hoedt, who apparently only 
obtained one specimen, the type, an adult male. A few more were procured 
by Meyer in the year 1871. Dr. Platen, during his residence in the island in 
1886 — 87, ^btained a fair number of specimens, forwarding to Mr. Nehrkorn, 
to whom we are indebted for the loan of the two described, as many as thirteen 
carefully labelled examples, which are discussed by Prof. W. Blasius ( 6 )\ but 
the species according to Dr. Platen is not particularly plentiful. The nearest 
known ally of L. catamene may be seen in L. amahilis W all. of Halmahera and 
Batchian, which corresponds wuth it in all the principal details of coloration and 
in having the upper tail-coverts in the adult bird longer than the tail. The 
