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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 819 6. LORICULUS HARTLAUBI (7). (Plate LXXXII.) Cory His hartlaubi, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 711. ? Loriculus indicus (Briss.); Souance', var. A, d, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1856, p. 220, partim. 1 Loriculus cyanoleemus, Bp. Tab. Uebers. d. Papag. no. 248 Naummania, 1856, Heft iv. ex Souance', I. c. ? Loriculus apicalis, Souance, I. c. Loriculus melanopterus (Scopoli), G. R. Gray, List Psittacidfe B. Mus. p. 55 (1859), nee Scop. Loriculus apicalis, Souance', G. R. Gray, t. c. p. 56. [Butuan, d (immature), May. Iris brown; bill red-orange-feet orange. Placer, d (nearly adult), July. Bill deep red; cere orange, d (immature), July. Bill orange-red ; cere light brown.] The series consists of twenty-one examples of both sexes, the colour of the bill being red or orange-red in all. Ten are from Butuan, one from Surigao, four from Placer, and six from Dinagat1. When seen from above, every one of these twenty-one examples exhibits a similar distribution of markings and colour, the latter varying in intensity according to age, but not according to sex ; so that all are readily to be recognized as belonging to one species. The whole top and back of the head is bright cherry-red, almost of the same shade as in L. indicus. The nape is pure golden-orange in adults of both sexes. The back is green, more or less washed with yellow, and in adults (d 2) with golden. In all, the uropygium and upper tail-coverts are rich crimson. Adolescence in both sexes, when seen from above, is betrayed by the crown-feathers being green at their insertions and tipped with orange, instead of cherry-red, and by the back being pure green and not suffused with yellow, the uropygium being of a less intense crimson, mixed more or less with green. Seen from below, two well-marked phases of plumage are represented, apart from the intermediate grades which characterize nonage. In one phase the cheeks, chin and upper throat, superciliaries, and lores are pale blue, the lower throat, breast, and abdomen light green or yellow-green. In the other phase the supercilium, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and under surface generally are of a full sap-°*reen, with the exception of a crimson, lengthened, pectoral plastron, quadrate below, and diminishing gradually to a narrow gular stripe, reaching almost to the chin. All the examples marked $ (6) belong to the first category, as well as some marked d (5). All those with the crimson pectoral mark, or with the slightest trace of red on the breast or throat, are marked male. So distinct a species do the individuals falling under one or other of the two categories appear, that, were it not for several examples in the series marked d exhibiting every gradation of the crimson pectoral mark, from a solitary crimson 1 Although I propose to give in a future paper a separate account of the birds collected in Dinagat, it being a distinct Philippine island, it will be more convenient when treating of this little-known species to include the Dinagat examples. |