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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 quadrieolor (1) W aid., Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1872, IX, 398; id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VITI, 
109 (Orn. Works, 1881, 125, 207); Meyer, J. f. 0. 1873, 404; (2) id.. Howl. Orn. 
Misc. 1877, H, 233, 251,252; (3) id.. Ibis 1879, 52, 145, 146; (IV) Salvad., Cat. 
B. XX, 1891, 534. 
a. Coryllis quadrieolor (1) Eclinw., J. f. O. 1881, 231 (Consp. Psitt. 119); id., Vogelbild. 
1883, 55. 
Figures and descriptions. Salvadori IV ] Walden 7; Eeichenow 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 tad-coverts of a darker red (ex Salvadori and Walden). 
Adult female. Like the male, but without the scarlet sinciput; the feathers of the forehead 
probably mth scarlet bases. 
Young. Like the female, but with the metacarpal edge greenish yellow, instead of red. 
A S23eciinen in the Dresden Museum marked young male evidently corresjmnds 
well with one so labelled in the British Museum (specimen c of the Catalogue), but 
which Count Salvadori wrongly behoves 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- 
res^jond with the old females. Tins is the case with its nearest ally L. stig7natus. 
Measurement. (Xr. 6031) cf juv. Togian Id. Wing 90, tad 41, tarsus 10, culmen from cere 11 mm. 
Distribution. Togian Island, Togian group in the Grulf of Tomini (Meyer J, 3). 
Only six si^ecimens of this Parrot were collected by Meyer, three of which 
are in the British and one in the Dresden and the other two in the Berlin 
Museum. They were 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. quadrieolor 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 Sula Islands, was pointed to by Meyer in 
1877 as iireserving the answer to the following problem: “It would be a very 
interesting point to ascertain which species lives there; for if it be L. stigmatus, 
the two allied forms L. sclateri and L. quadrieolor 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 knoAV whether it is L. sclateri or L. quadrieolor, or (as is jmssible) a form which 
is intermediate between these two” {2j. 
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. quadrieolor and sclateri are insular forms, though perhaps not derived from 
L. stigmatus as it is at the present day. 
