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species — though, no doubt, somewhat changed — may perhaps be regarded 
as more ancient types. 
^ 52. LORICULUS QUADRICOLOR Tweedd. 
Togian Lorikeet. 
Loriculus quadricolor (1) W aid., Ann. & Mag. bT. H. 1872, IX, 398; id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, YHI, 
109 (Orn. Works, 1881, 125, 207); Meyer, J. f. O. 1873, 404; (2) id., Eowl. Orn. 
Misc. 1877, n, 233, 251, 252; (3) id.. Ibis 1879, 52, 145, 146; (IV) Salvad., Cat. 
B. XX, 1891, 534. 
a. Coryllis quadricolor (1) Eclinw., J. f. 0. 1881, 231 (Oonsp. Psitt. 119); id., Vogelbild. 
1883, 55. 
Figures and descriptions. Salvador! IV\ Walden 7; Beichenow a 1. 
Adult male. Like the adult L. sclateri^ but with the addition of a scarlet sinciput; the inter- 
scapulars and back golden orange, without the orange-red tinge in the middle; the 
rump and upper tail-coverts of a darker red (ex Salvador! and Walden). 
Adult female. Like the male, but without the scarlet sinciput; the feathers of the forehead 
prohahly with scarlet bases. 
Young. Like the female, but Avith the metacarpal edge greenish yellow, instead of red. 
A specimen in the Dresden Museum marked young male evidently corresponds 
well with one so labelled in the British Museum (specimen c of the Catalogue), but 
which Count Salvador! Avrongly believes to be a nearly adult female (the bases of 
the feathers on the forehead being red) as in very many cases the young males cor- 
respond with the old females. This is the case with its nearest ally L. stigmatus. 
Measurement. (Xr. 6031) juv. Togian Id. Wing 90, tail 41, tarsus 10, culmen from cere 11 mm. 
Distribution. Togian Island, Togian group in the Grulf of Tomini (Meyer i, 3). 
Only six specimens of this Parrot Avere collected by Meyer, three of which 
are in the British and one in the Dresden and the other two in the Berlin 
Museum. They Avere shot near the village of Togian on the chief island of 
the group in the Gulf of Tomini in the month of August, 1871. L. quadricolor is 
intermediate in coloration between L. stigmatus of Celebes and L. sclateri of 
Sula. The Banggai Peninsula, the eastern limb of the mainland of Celebes, 
jutting out between the Togian and Snla Islands, was pointed to by Meyer in 
1877 as preserving the answer to the following problem: “It would be a very 
interesting point to ascertain Avhich species lives there; for if it be L. stigmatus, 
the two allied forms L. sclateri and L. quadricolor will prove to be insular 
forms derived from a parent stock, L. stigmatus, both changed in a somewhat 
similar manner, perhaps through the same (say ‘insular’) conditions, but not 
quite in the same manner. If, on the other hand, the species which inhabits 
Banggai should prove to be not L. stigmatus, it would certainly be of interest 
to know whether it is L. sclateri or L. quadricolor, or (as is possible) a form which 
is intermediate between these two” (2). 
The collections from the Eastern Peninsula made by native hunters in 1895 
for the Dresden Museum proved that L. stigmatus occurs there, and that there- 
fore L. quadricolor and sclateri are insular forms, though perhaps not derived from 
L. stig^natus as it is at the present day. 
