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Loriculus quadricolor Walden. (20-534) 
Loriculus quadricolor Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1872, p. 398 : 
Togian Islands. (Fig. Cat. Birds, xx. pi. 15.) 
Distr .—Celebes (a subspecies of above ?). 
Loriculus amabilis Wall. (20-536.) 
Loriculus amabilis Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. 349 : Gilolo. (Fig. Cat. 
Birds, xx. pi. 14) 
Distr .—Halmahera and Batjan. 
Loriculus aurantiifrons Schl. 
Distr. —New Guinea, Mysol, and Fergusson Islands. 
Loriculus aurantiifrons aurantiifrons Schl. (20-537.) 
Loriculus aurantiifrons Schlegel, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. vol. iv. p. 9, 
1871: New Guinea. (Fig. Gould, N. G. v. pi. xliii.; and Orn. 
Miscell. pi. 72. fig. 1.) 
Distr. —New Guinea. 
Loriculus aurantiifrons batavorum Stres. 
Loriculus aurantiifrons batavorum Stresemann, Journ. fur Ornith. 
1913, p. 602: Snow Mts. 
Distr. —N.W. New Guinea (east to Sepik lliver and Snow Mts.). 
Loriculus aurantiifrons meeki Hart. 
Loriculus aurantiifrons meeki Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. ii. p. 62, 
1895 : Fergusson Island. 
Distr. —Fergusson Island and S.E. New Guinea to Sattelberg. 
Loriculus tener Scl. (20-538.) 
Loriculus tener Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 107: Duke 
of York Island. (Fig. Orn. Miscell. pi. 72. figs. 2 & 3.) 
Distr. —Duke of York Island, New Ireland, and New Hanover. 
Family PLATYCERCI1 )JE. 
Genus PLATYCERCUS Vigors. 
Platycercus Vigors, Zool. Journ. vol. i. p. 527, Jan. 1825. Type (by 
original designation) : P. pennantii Latham=P. elegans Gmelin. 
Platycercus elegans (Gmelin). 
Distr .—Eastern and South Australia. 
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