3. loiuus. 31 



even with olive colour ; lower back and uropygium yellowish white ; 

 under tail-coverts purple-blue ; the wings show a purple tinge on 

 the primary-coverts and on the anterior great coverts ; the innermost 

 great coverts and the inner secondaries have a tinge of chestnut ; pri- 

 maries with a slight tinge of olive on tho outer edges, and with the 

 inner web red towards the base ; under wing-coverts partly red ; 

 tail above greyish purple, the central tail-feathers towards the base 

 reddish ; tail-feathers beneath red at the base of the inner web, 

 reddish olive towards tho tips : bill red or orange-yellow ; feet 

 dusky; iris red. Total length 10-5 inches, wing 63, tail 3-5 

 bill 0-88, tarsus 0-69. 



Young. Yellow where the adult bird is red. 



Hub. New Guinea, Jobi, Salwatty. 



«. Ad. ; b,c. cf ? Dorey. Wallace Coll. 



num. ; d. $ (Types of Eoa torrida. Gr.) 



.1 11V - 



e. $ ad. ; /. cf Dorey. Wallace Coll. 



nam. 



g, h. Ad.; cf hum. Dorey (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



t. Ad. sk. Amberbaki. L. Laglaize [CI 



k, I. Imm. & juv. New Guinea. Tweed'dale Coll. 



m - 2 ad. S.E. New Guinea (li. Humtein). Tweeddale Coll. 



n. cf num. Mount Owen Stanley. C. Ilunsteiu [C.]. 



°- Ad. Astrolabe Mountains. Hon. II. Romiliv 



[P-]- 

 p, q. Imm. Port Moresby. Gould Coll. 



r. Imm. Port Moresby. K. Broadbent [C]. 



3. LORIUS. 



Type 



Lorius*, Vic/. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 400 (1825 s ) L. domicella 



Domicella, Wayl. Man. Psitt. p. 49o (1832) L. domicella. 



llange. From the Moluccas to the Solomon Islands. 



Key to the Species. 

 I. Pileum black. 

 a. A T o yellow band across the crop region. 

 a'. Under wing-coverts red. 



a". Abdomen purple hypoenochrous, p. 32. 



l>". Abdomen blue. 



a'". Breast dark blue ; the blue colour 

 joining in the adult birds with 

 the blue of the nape . . lory, p. 33. 



, , J'"'; Bre . ast retl erythrothorax, p. 36. 



b . Under winp-coverts blue. 



c". A band below the occiput red jobiensis, p. 3-5. 



d". No red baud below the occiput cyanauchen, p. 36. 



h. A yellow band across the crop region. 

 c. Quills with the base of the inner web 



y ellow domicella, p. 37. 



* The geuus Lorius is generally attributed to Brisson, who did not use the 

 oame in a generic sense. 



