Loriculus chrysonotus Sclater, Ibis (1872), 324, pl. 11; Salvadori,
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 522; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900),
2, 36; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 50.
Co-lan'-si, Toledo, Cebu.
Cebu (Meyer, Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
McGregor).
"Adult male (type).--Green, underneath yellowish green; forehead, rump,
and upper tail-coverts red; vertex, occiput, nape, and upper back
golden yellow; an obsolete spot in the middle of the nape, also the
upper back, tinged with orange; cheeks, sides of the head and of the
neck grass-green; a large patch on the throat orange-red, the yellow
color of the base of the feathers showing through; sides of the lower
back tinged with blue; quills and tail above dark green; inner web
of the quills and tail beneath blue; tail-feathers tipped with light
green. 'Iris brown; bill orange-red; feet orange.' (Everett.) Length,
157; wing, 99; tail, 51; bill, 15; tarsus, 11.
"Adult female.--Differs from the male in having the anterior part of
the cheeks and throat tinged with blue; no red patch on the throat; the
golden yellow tinge on the head and nape not so bright; the upper back,
or interscapular region, green, slightly washed with golden orange,
and the blue tinge on the sides of the lower back paler." (Salvadori.)
"This was the only Loriculus which we failed to find abundantly in
coconut-trees where the trees themselves were accessible. In 1888
several days of hard work in the great coconut-groves near Carmen,
Cebu, brought us but a single specimen. In 1893, however, we found
it quite abundant in the woods near Toledo. It is possible that its
disappearance from the coconut-groves of the east coast is due to the
lack of suitable breeding ground near by. The forest has been almost
entirely cleared from the island, and the little which remains will
soon be gone.
"Five males average, 154 in length; wing, 96; tail, 54; culmen, 14;
tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 19. Five females, length, 157; wing,
97; tail, 55; culmen, 13; tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 20. Iris
dark brown; legs and feet orange-red; nails black; bill usually
scarlet, may be pale red or even yellow." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)