150 
Birds of Celebes: Psittacidae. 
yellowish; iris light brown (Platen a 4)\ another example cf juv. : bill orange-red, 
cere and feet yellow-hi’own, iris orange (Platen, Nehrlcorn in lit.). 
According to Dr. Guillemard (10) the female is without the red spot on the 
throat, though the two sexes of species were at first (after a specimen with a red 
throat-spot determined as $ by von Kosenberg) stated to he identical by Schlegel 
and Finsch. The five specimens in the Dresden Museum have all a I’ed spot on the 
throat, hut the sex is not marked, so that they do not help to decide what is the 
truth of the matter. A young male, sent by Platen to Mr. hTehrkorn, with an 
orange-red bill has no spot. Dr. Guillemard’s birds may have been young females. 
A specimen marked Q in the Sarasin Collection has a small spot of red on 
the throat. 
Keasurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Culmen 
from cere 
a. (Nr. 14030) Manado 
69 
31 
8 
7.5 
h. (Nr. 1935) Manado 
67 
34 
8.5 
— 
c. (Nr. 1742) Manado 
67 
31 
8 
7.5 
d. (Nr. 14029) Manado 
66 
— 
8.5 
7.5 
e. (C 1160) Manado 
65 
32 
8 
— 
f. (Sarasin Coll.) Q, Rurukan, 12. IV. 95 . . . . . 
69 
30 
8.5 
7 
Skeleton. mas. fem. mas. fern. 
Length of craiuum . . 
23.0 
24.0 mm 
Greatest breadth of do. 
13.8 
14.3 
Length of humerus . . 
14.8 
14.8 
Length of ubia . . . 
17.5 
17.6 
Length of radius . . . 
16.2 
15.9 
> 
Length of manus . . . 
21.4 
21.7 
> 
Length of femnr . . . 
16.1 
16.0 
» 
Length of tibia . . . 
23.2 
23.0 mm 
Length of tarso-metat. . 
7.8 
7.7 
Length of sternum . . 
21.5 
22.0 
Greatest breadth of do. 
12.7 
12.4 
V 
Height of crista sterni . 
8.0 
8.0 
» 
Length of pelvis . . . 
21.7 
22.8 
Greatest breadth of do. 
11.4 
11.5 
» 
Distribution. North Celebes — Tulabido and Paguatt, Gorontalo Province (Rosenberg 
J, 5, 6)\ Manado, Minahassa (Meyer 2, 5, 7, Gruillem. 10); Rurukan, Minahassa 
(Platen a 4, P. & P. Sarasin). 
This minute Parrot ranks with L. aurantiifrons Schl. of Mysol and New 
Guinea as the smallest species of the genus Loriculus. It was first discovered 
by von Rosenberg, who obtained five specimens in a garden at Tulabulo, 
N. E. of Gorontalo in 1864. In 1871 it was found again by Meyer at Manado; 
in the month of March only a single pair was met with, but in May it suddenly 
appeared in large flocks, frequenting the mangrove bushes near the sea-shore, 
and about a hundred specimens were obtained by the natives with blowpipes. 
The contents of the stomachs of specimens examined appeared to be composed, 
as far as Meyer could make out, of the juices of flowers; but doubtless it eats 
fruits as well, as von Rosenberg states (1), since no animal can live upon 
honey alone, from the fact that it contains no albumen (Marshall, Papag. 
1889, 21). Some tame specimens belonging to Dr. Platen were fed on a soft 
milk food, consisting of finely powdered biscuit, flavoured with bananas or sugar 
water. The Ceylonese sjrecies L. indicus feeds on the juices of both fruits and 
flowers (Legge, 182). At Rurukan at a height of over 3000 ft. Dr. Platen 
appears to have found L. exilis in plenty, and he mentions that both this bird 
