44. LORICULUS. 515 



44. LORICULUS*. 



Type. 



Pedttaculus, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. .303 (1836) {nee Spir, 

 1824) PL. vernaHs. 



Loriculus, Blyth, Cat. B. M-us. A. S. B. p. 9 (1819) . . L. galgulus. 



Licmefculua, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt gen.61 L. bonapartei. 



Coryllis, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 687 (1868) ( = Loriculus, 

 Blyth). 



Range. From India and the Philippine Islands, through the 

 Malay Archipelago, as far east as the Duke of York Island of the 

 Papuan subregion. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Bill orange-red. 



a'. Head in the adult birds entirely green. 

 a". No red spot on the throat. 



a'". Throat bluish in the male, but with no 

 blue colour or scarcely any in the 



female veniulis, p. - j 1 7 . 



b" '. Throat yellowish pusillus, p. 520. 



b". A red spot on the throat, wanting at least 

 in the female of L. exilis. 

 c" . Larger, wing 3 inches ; nape tinged with 

 orange; tips of the tail-feathers yel- 

 lowish stained with red Jloseulus, p. 521. 



d'". Smaller, wing 2*55 inches; no orange 

 tinge on the nape ; tips of the tail- 

 feathers yellowish green exilis, p. 521. 



b'. Head not entirely green in the adult birds ; 

 crown partly or entirely red. 

 c". Red colour on the crown confined to the 

 forehead. 

 e" . Tail above dark green, with no blue. 

 n\ Interscapular region golden yellow, 

 more or less tinged with orange; a 

 red patch on the throat and green 

 cheeks in the adult male ; no red 

 ] atch mi the throat, cheeks and chin 



bluish in the female chrysonotus, p. -522. 



b { . Int srscapular region green, with no 

 golden- irange tinge; cheeks green in 

 the males, bluish in the fern; 

 it . A golden-orange spot on the nape. 

 a". Vertex bright orange -yellow, 

 sharply delined in the male ; ver- 

 tex slightly tinged with orange, 

 and cheeks blue in the female . . reffuhu. p. 523. 

 b 6 . Vertex and nape with a very slight 

 yellow tinge, both in males and 

 females ; female like that of L. 

 reijidus philippemis, p, 524. 



* Loru-it/i have not the tongue (fomented as iu the Loriina, with which 

 they have been generally, but quite erroneously, classed (D/yfk). 



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