菲律宾小岛发现两新物种：一鼠一鹦鹉

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Photo of new parrot. This newly described Camiguin Hanging-parrot is only found on the Philippine island of Camiguin. The tiny island is especially rich in biological diversity but increasingly... The parrot is a Hanging-parrot, or Colasisi, with bright green feathers covering most of the body. The throat and thighs are bright blue, and the top of the head and tail are brilliant scarlet-orange. Males and females have identical plumage, which is quite unusual in this group of parrots.

"This description is based on a series of specimens that had been part of The Field Museum's collections for almost 40 years, so our work highlights the value of collecting and preserving scientific specimens, because you may not initially realize the significance of specimens," said John Bates, Curator of Birds and Chair of Zoology at The Field Museum, and a co-author of one of the Fieldiana reports. "If we did not have a series of specimens from Camiguin and additional series of Hanging-parrots from other Philippine Islands, we probably would have assumed that the single bird that prompted our investigation was just odd looking, and we would not have been able to recognize it as distinctive."

Because L. camiguinensis has not been recognized as a separate species, little is known about its habits, and it has been overlooked in terms of conservation. The discovery has spurred interest in the field studies needed to establish the population size and requirements as a prerequisite for conservation planning and action.

The new mammal is a Philippine forest mouse, now identified as Apomys camiguinensis. It has large ears and eyes, a long tail and rusty-brown fur, and it feeds mostly on insects and seeds. The description is based on mice captured on Camiguin during a biological survey Heaney and Tabaranza conducted in 1994 and 1995, high on the steep slopes of one of the island's volcanoes.

In 2002, Heaney, Tabaranza, and Eric Rickart, of the Utah Museum of Natural History, described a different species of forest-living rodent, Bullimus gamay, from Mt. Timpoong, the same mountain where the new mouse was collected. A frog (Oreophryne nana) named in 1967 had been thought to be the only vertebrate restricted to the island prior to the surveys by Heaney and Tabaranza.

文章翻译：菲律宾南部的一座热带雨林，发现了新品种鹦鹉和老鼠，但这些专家也警告，它们正因环境恶化及森林砍伐而面临生存的危机。鹦鹉以及长尾森林鼠。这两种生物是美国生物学家较早前抵菲研究时所发现，其中鹦鹉被命名为“加米干悬吊鹦鹉”，森林鼠则被称为“加米干离鼠”。菲律宾询问日报”引述期刊说，这种鹦鹉由于具有商业价值，因此对加米干岛原住民来讲并不陌生，它的身体羽毛呈绿色，喉部及腿部是鲜蓝色，而头部及尾部则是艳红色。报导指出，加米干悬吊鹦鹉的样本早于六十年代就被送到菲尔德自然历史博物馆，但迄今才被认真的研究，雌雄两性的羽色几乎完全相似，这是它比较特别的地方。