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Birds of Celebes: Psittacidae. 
GENUS APROSMICTUS J. 6d. 
This handsome genus is easily distinguished from all the other Parrots 
occurring in the Celebesian area by its long tail, as long or longer than the 
wings and strongly-graduated, the outermost feathers not reaching much more 
than half the length of the tail; fourth primary longer than the first; the reversed 
toe with the claw about as long as the middle toe without the claw; bill red 
or mostly red; principal colours red, blue, and green. Eight species ranging 
from Australia and Papuasia to the Moluccas, Sula and Peling. 
4 * 54. APROSMICTUS SULAENSIS Rchw. 
E,ed-and-blue Parrakeet. 
Plate VII. 
a. Platycercus dorsalis var. (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 337; 1864, 282, 293 (Sula). 
h. Platycercus dorsalis (1) Schl., Ned. Tdsclir. Drk. 1866, 184 (Sula); (2) id., Eev. Psitt. 
1874, 38 (Sula). 
c. Platycercus amboinensis (1) Finscli, Papag. 1868, H, 250 (Sula). 
Aprosmictus sulaensis (1) Eclinw., J. f. O. 1881, 128 (Oonsp. Psitt. 64); (2) id., Vogelb. 
1878-83 Nachtr. Nr. 16; (3) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, III, 515; (4) id.. Cat. B. 
XX, 1891, 492; (5) M. & Wg., Abk. Mus. Dresden 1896 Nr. 2, p. 8. 
“Kakas”, Peling, Nat. Coll. 
Adult. Entire head, neck, and under parts deep poppy-xed, the under tail-coverts with 
broad mesial streaks of dusky blue; carpus, mantle, back and tail dark blue, 
brightest on the rump, duskier and more violet according to the light on the tail; 
the tail-feathers below black, all except the two middle ones tipped with red; wings 
dark parrot-green, a band of this colour passing across the blue of the upper mantle; 
metacarpal edge and under wing-coverts blue, shghtly mixed with green; re- 
miges below shining dusky. Bill reddish; feet blackish (ad. Peling, V — VIII, 1895, 
0 14758). 
Younger. Differs from the adult in having the cervix and uj>per mantle green like the wings, 
the bill varied with reddish and dusky (Peling, C 14514). 
Measurements. (3 examples in the Dresden and 2 in the Tring Museum from Peling) wing 
182 — 190 mm; tail ca. 190 — 195; tarsus ca. 20; bill from cere ca. 20. 
Distribution. Sula and Peling. Sula Islands — (Allen a 1)\ Sula Mangoli (Bernstein and 
Hoedt hi, h 2) \ Peling (Nat. Coll, m Dresd. & Tring Mus.). 
Observation. This, and three closely-allied Parrots, may be distinguished as follows: 
a. Interscapulary region blue in adult. 
a . Tail below black. 
A. dorsalis (Quoy & Graim.): Distrib. — N.W. New Guinea and the 
surrounding western Papuan Islands (Salvad.). 
h' . Two outer tail-feathers broadly edged with red. 
A. amboinensis (L.): Distrib. — Amboina and Ceram (Salvad.). 
