Part 109

246. BOLBOPSITTACUS LUNULATUS (Scopoli).

LUZON GUAIABERO.

Psittacus lunulatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 86. Bolbopsittacus lunulatus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 504; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 49.

Bo-bó-toc, gua-ya-bé-ro, Luzon.

Luzon (Cuming, Möllendorff, Steere, Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor).

Male.--General color green, lighter below; lores, orbit, cheeks, a narrow line on forehead, and a narrow collar on hind neck pale blue; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light greenish yellow; the longest coverts clear green; primaries, primary-coverts, and alula blue on outer webs, inner webs black; ends of primaries more or less green; on under side of wing a pale yellowish band across inner webs of secondaries and shorter primaries; rectrices green above, blue below. Iris brown, cere black; bill black, with base white; legs dull green; nails horn-brown. In the female all of the lower mandible is dirty white. Three males and three females from Bataan Province average, wing, 98; tail, 36; culmen from cere, 18; tarsus, 13.

Female.--Differs from the male in having the lower parts lighter green; blue of head confined to feathers of lower cheeks overhanging chin on each side; a narrow ring of light green around eye; collar on hind neck yellow, each feather with two narrow crescentic lines of blackish green; lower back and rump green, with blackish crescentic marks. Same size as the male.

Young.--"Young male resembles the female." (Salvadori.)

247. BOLBOPSITTACUS INTERMEDIUS Salvadori.

INTERMEDIATE GUAIABERO.

Bolbopsittacus intermedius Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 505; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 49.

Leyte (Whitehead); Samar (Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).

Male.--"Similar to the male of B. lunulatus, from which it differs in having the face of a deeper blue with a purple tinge, and a blue collar on the lower part of the hind neck brighter and like that of B. mindanensis; the under parts are of a deeper and brighter green than either in B. lunulatus or in B. mindanensis; bill black; feet greenish. Length, 147; wing, 99; tail, 33; bill, 19; tarsus, 10." (Salvadori.)

Female.--"It differs from the male in having the blue of the head confined to the throat, the cheeks being light green. Around the eye a ring of green lighter than that of crown. The blue collar is replaced by an indistinct collar of faint orange-yellow. Rump only slightly lighter than back and green, not yellow as in male. Under surface slightly lighter and more yellowish. Thighs green instead of yellow.

"A young male is like the female but has less blue on sides of throat." (Bourns and Worcester.)

"A male measures 168 in length; wing, 98; tail, 33; culmen, 18; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 22. Two females measure: Length, 168; wing, 95; tail, 35; culmen, 19; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 20. Iris dark brown; legs and feet light olive-green; nails black; bill blackish at tip, gray at base; cere black. Food guavas. All of the specimens obtained were shot from a flock found in a mangrove swamp the day before our departure from Samar." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

248. BOLBOPSITTACUS MINDANENSIS (Steere).

MINDANAO GUAIABERO.

Cyslopsitta mindanensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 6. Bolbopsittacus mindanensis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 506; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 49; Grant, Ibis (1906), 494.

Mindanao (Cuming, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino); Panaon (Everett).

"Adult male.--Differs from that of B. lunulatus in having the cheeks green, the blue round the eyes separated by the green cheeks from the blue of the throat; the collar on the lower hind neck is of a brighter and deeper blue; the green of the head has a yellowish tinge, contrasting with the purer green color of the back. Iris dark brown; bill black, the base of the maxilla light gray; feet greenish." (Everett.) Length, about 152; wing, 96 to 99; tail, 33; bill, 18; tarsus, 10.

"Adult female.--Exactly similar to the female of B. lunulatus." (Salvadori.)

"Two males average, 159 in length; wing, 97; tail, 39; culmen, 18; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 20. Six females, length, 154; wing, 96; tail, 41; culmen, 18; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 19. Iris brown; legs and feet light olive-green. Called by the natives 'guayabero' from its habit of eating guavas. On the few occasions when we met with this species it occurred in flocks. It is a common cage bird in Mindanao. We searched in vain for it in Basilan, but are by no means satisfied that it does not exist there." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

Genus LORICULUS Blyth, 1849.

Length, about 150 mm.; bill compressed; tail short, rectrices slightly graduated and extending a little beyond tail-coverts; general color grass-green, more yellowish below; forehead, rump, and upper tail-coverts scarlet; tail green above, blue below; under surface of primaries black, widely edged with blue on inner webs; adult males with a large, oval scarlet spot on throat and breast; bases of the feathers yellow; adult females and immature males with blue cheeks; young in first plumage with scarlet rump and tail-coverts, but neither blue nor red on head.

Species.

a1. Bill orange red.

b1. No blue on crown.