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.)