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ISirds of Celebes; Psittacidae. 
GENUS APROSMICTUS .T.Gd. 
This handsome genus is easily distinguished from all the other Parrots 
occurring in the Celebesiau area h\ its long tail, as long oi longer thair the 
wings and strongly-graduated, the outermost feathers not reaching much more 
than half the length of the tail; fourtli 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 sirecies ranging 
from Australia and Pa])uasia to the Moluccas, Sula and Peling. 
* 54. APROSMICTUS SULAENSIS Rcliw. 
lie d- and-blue 1 ’arrake et . 
Plate VII. 
a. Platyeercus dorsalis var. (1) Wall., P. /. 8. 18(12, 335, 337; 1864, 282, 293 (Sula). 
i/. Platyeercus dorsalis (1.) Schl., Wd. I'dsclir. Prk. 186(5, 184 (Sula), ( 2 ) id., lle\. Psitt. 
1874, 38 (Sula). 
c. Platyeercus amboinensis (1) I'iiiscb, Ibipag. 1868, 11, 2i)0 (Sula). 
Aprosmictus sulaensis ( 1 ; Rclnnv., .1. f. (1. 1881, 128 (Oonsp. Psitt. 64), ( 2 ) id., \ogelli. 
1878-83 Kachtr. Nr. 16; Cv 8:ilvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, HI, 515; (4) id.. Cat. B. 
XX. 1891, 492; (3) M. d' Wg., .-\1j1i. IMus. Dresden 1896 Nr. 2, p. 8. 
‘■Kakas”, Peling, Nat. Coll. 
Adult. Entire head, neck, and under part.s deep poppy-red, the under tail-coverts with 
broad mesial streaks of dusky hluo; carpus, mantle, hack and tail dark blue, 
brightest on the rump, duskier and more violet according to the light on the tail; 
the tail-feathers helow bliw'k, .-dl (^xenpt the two middle ones tipped with red; wings 
dark parrot-green, a hand of this colour passing across the blue of the upper mantle; 
metacarpal edge and under wing-coverts blue, shghtly mixed with green; re- 
miges lielow shining dusky. Hill reddish; feet blackish (ad. Peling, V — Vm, 1895, 
C 14758). 
Younger. Differs from the adult in hav ing the cervix and upper 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 fiom Pelingj uing 
182 — 190 ]um; tail ca. 19(1—195; tarsus ca. 20; bill from cere ca. 20. 
Distribution. Sula and Peling. Sula Islands — (Allen « J); Sida Mangoli (Bernstein and 
Hoedt />i, h 2); Peling (.Vat. Coll, in Dresd. & Tring Mus.). 
Observation. This, and three closely-allied Carrots, may be distinguished as follows: 
r/. Intersca])ulary region blue in adidt. 
ri'. Tail below block. 
A. (lomilis (t^uoy V Craiin.): Distrih. — N.W. New Guinea and the 
surrounding western Papuan Islands (Salvad.). 
h'. Two outer tail-fcatlicrs broadly edged with red. 
A. aviljfiiiirDsis iL.): Distrih. — Amboina and Ceram (Salvad. i. 
