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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 5); Buton (S. Mtiller 3 , 4 , 5 )\ 
West Celebes (Doherty 25); South Peninsula — Bonthain (Weber 20, Bibbe & Kiibn 
in Dresd. Mus.); Macassar (Bernst. 8 , Wall. iS); Boni (Mus. Leyd. 5); Tjamba (Platen 
76); Sula Islands — Pebng and Banggai (Nat. Coll.). 
Von liosenberg first recorded the Sula Islands as a locality for this species 
on information of one of the native chiefs of the islands (3)^ but there was no 
evidence in proof of the correctness of this till specimens were obtained by" our 
native hunters in Banggai and Peling. The hunter Kamis Birahi, who accom- 
panied Bernstein, Wallace, v. Rosenherg and Meyer on some of their 
journeys, and who visited Sula, informed Meyer that T. ornatus 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 heen from captivity. 
As Dr. Finsch 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, Charmosyna, Oreopsittacus, Neo- 
psittaais and Trichoglossus. Two of Prof. Reichenow’s groups are further sub- 
divided by Count Salvadori (C’at. B. XX, 1891): — Charmosyna into Hypo- 
charmosyna, Charmosynopsis, Charmosyna-, and Neopsittacus into Psitteiiteles, 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 W^edge-tailed Loris, to which T. oi-natus 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 part orange-yellow or red. Its nearest 
allies appear to he T. massena Bp. of S. E. New Guinea, New Britain and 
the neighbouring islands as far as the New Hebrides, and T. cyanogrammiis 
"Wagl. of Western Papuasia as far as Burn. 
Although confined to Celebes, T. ornatus, like some of the Trichoglossi of 
Australia, is by 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 (Finsch, Papag. II, 816); fruit 
