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Female. Differs from the male in having the head above much darker and duller — viz. 
broAvnish green with a suggestion of purplish therein in certain lights (g Rurukan, 
3. IV. 94, P. & F. S.). 
Younger. Crown of head more yellow-green, scarcely yellower on the forehead; yellow of 
under surface greener; inner margin of quills yellowish; some of the same colour 
spread out on the inner webs of some of the inner primaries. A trace of green 
barring near tip of tail (Nr. 1746). Bill dark. 
Distribution. North Celebes — Manado (Wallace a 1, Meyer b 1, v. Duivenb. b3, etc.); 
Burukan — 3000 ft. (Platen h 12, P. & P. S.); (?)Gorontalo (Brit. Mus. eJ); Central 
Celebes between Lake Posso and Mapane (P. & F. S. b 14). 
2. Triclioglossus meyeri bonthainensis (Meyer). 
d. Trichoglossus meyeri var. bonthainensis flj Meyer, Isis 1884, 16; (2) Salvad., Cat. B. 
1891, XX, 64 note; (III) Mivart, Loriidae 1896, 127, pi. XLI, figs. 2, 3. 
Figures and descriptions. Mivart, Meyer, Salvadori 11. cc. 
Diagnosis. Key to the two subspecies: 
1. The subterminal bars on the feathers of lores and cheeks broader and ochraceous 
in colour; the green bars of tlie under surface narrower. The typicnl T. meyeri. 
Distr. North Celebes. 
2. The subternuiial bars on feathers of lores and cheeks narrower, dull ap23le-green; 
the green bars of the under surface broader; the yellow bases of feathers of mantle 
less developed T. meyeri bonthavmnsis. 
Distr. Mt. Bonthain, 8. Celebes. (Ribbe & Kiibn.) 
Measurements. 
Wing- 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Culmeu 
from cere 
a. (Nr. 1745) Manado 
108 
67 
13 
14.5 
h. (Nr. 1747) Manado 
103 
63 
12 
14.5 
c. (Nr. 1746) imm. Celebes 
101 
57 
12.5 
13.5 
d. (Sara sin Coll.) ad. Burukan, 3. IV. 94 . . . . 
102 
63 
13 
15.5 
e. (Sarasin ColL) g ad. Burukan, 3. IV. 94 ... . 
101 
58 
12 
14 
f. (Sarasin Coll.) juv. Burukan, 4. X. 94 . . . . 
102 
61 
— 
14 
g. (Sarasin ColL) juv. Centr. Celebes, 23. II. 95 . . . 
101 
62 
11.5 
13.5 
h. (Nr. 6007) Bonthain, S. Celebes (type of bonthahiensis) 
106 
68 
13 
15.5 
The type-specimen of honthainends remains up to the present the only one 
on record from any part of South Celebes. 
The group of small Greev Wedge-tailed Lories of the subgeiius Psitteuteles, 
according to Coimt Salvadori, is found in one species in Australia, one in the 
Timor group, one in Celebes and one in Sula. It is curiously absent in the 
Moluccas and Papuasia, as also in Sangi. lu the latter islands, the genus Eos, 
which is absent in Celebes, occurs, but Trichoglossus, which is represented in 
two species in Celebes is not found there at all, or at least it has not yet been 
discovered there. Perhaps these facts have a certain relation to one another, 
it may he suggested that one species ousts the other from this or that locality 
by seizing the food they both eat. In Amboina and elsewhere nearer to the 
eastern centre of development of the parrot tribe, how'ever, both a species of Eos 
and of Lonus and a Blue-headed Tiichoglossus occur together. 
