208 On an apparently new Species of Coryllis. 
This species inhabits the islands of Negros and Panay, where 
it has been collected by Dr. A. B. Meyer, to whom we are 
indebted for the knowledge of the exact habitat. Mr. L. C. 
Layard seems not to have observed this species during his 
stay on the island of Negros, as it is not included in the valu¬ 
able list of his birds published by Lord Walden ( vide Ibis, 
1872, pp. 93-107). 
2. Coryllis occipitalis, sp. nov. 
Loriculus regulus , Gray (nee Souance), List B. Brit. Mus. 
Psitt. 1859, p. 56; Wallace, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 288. 
Coryllis regulus , Finsch, Papag. ii. 1868, p. 710 (part). 
L. regulus , Gray, Handl. iii. p. 252 (Mindanao). 
In every respect like the foregoing species, except that the 
bright golden yellow of the vertex extends to the occiput. 
Female unknown. 
Hob. Mindanao (Cuming). 
Having had no opportunity of seeing the type of Souance, 
I was, until lately, of opinion that the species in the British 
Museum was (as labelled by the late G. B. Gray) the true C. 
regulus ; and I considered the differences in the amount of yel¬ 
low on the head only individual. But, as I have shown 
above, we now know the true habitat of C. regulus to be the 
islands of Negros and Panay, and, in consequence of the dif¬ 
ferences, explained above, may regard the Mindanao bird as 
of a different species. 
I should mention that there is another specimen in the 
British Museum labelled L. regulus , and also described by 
me (Papag. p. 711), which shows not only the vertex and 
occiput yellow, but also the hind neck and nape. In this 
respect it comes near to C. chrysonotus , Scl. (Ibis, 1872, 
p. 324, t. xi.), from Cebu; but this latter has no orange-red 
spot on the nape, so that the specimen in the British Museum, 
without exact locality, may possibly turn out to belong to 
another undescribed species of this group, as we are still 
far from being well acquainted with the avifauna of the various 
islands of the Philippine archipelago. 
