“Measurements of two males: Wing, 94; tail, 46; culmen, 14; tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 18. Six females: Length, 162; wing, 98; tail, 52; culmen, 13; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 20. Bill scarlet to orange; legs and feet pale yellow to orange, nails nearly black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
255. LORICULUS APICALIS Souancé.
MINDANAO COLASISI.
- Loriculus apicalis Souancé, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (1856), 220, 221; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 528; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 36; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 50.
- Loriculus hartlaubi Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 819, pl. 82.
Bazol (Everett); Dinagat (Everett); Mindanao (Cuming, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, Goodfellow, Waterstradt).
“Adult male.—Green; crown red, changing into orange on the nape; back and scapulars washed more or less with golden; rump and upper tail-coverts rich crimson; sides of the rump tinged with bluish; cheeks and under parts yellowish green; a red patch on the throat, with the base of the feathers yellow; quills black, dark green on the outer web, blue on the inner web below; tail above green, the lateral feathers blue toward the tip, and tipped with pale bluish green; tail underneath blue. ‘Iris brown, bill red-orange, cere and feet orange.’ (Everett.) Length, 147; wing, 91; tail, 43; bill, 15; tarsus, 10.
“Female.—Differs from the male in having the lores, cheeks, chin, and upper throat pale blue, and no red patch on the lower throat and upper breast.
“Young.—Crown-feathers green at the base and tipped with orange instead of red; the back pure green, not suffused with yellow, the uropygium less intense crimson, mixed more or less with green; cheeks, chin, and throat green, but in a second stage these parts become more and more tinged with blue.” (Salvadori.)
“Abundant in Zamboanga. The Panay record made by Count Salvadori for this species on the strength of a specimen collected by Mr. Worcester and marked from that island is certainly an error, probably due to the misplacing of a label, as Mr. Worcester never shot L. apicalis in Panay.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)