Beference List of Coloured Plates of the Parrots.



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L . Jiavopalliatus , Yellow-backed Lory.

Mivart, t. c.. pi. 24, fig. 2.


Wyt., pt. 11, pi. 2 (head).



Calliptilus solitarins, Solitary Lory.


Mivart, t . c., pi. 25.


Rowley, Orn. Misc., ii, pi. 38.


Ibis, 1912, p. 293, pi. (cock and hen).


Wyt., pt. 11, pi. 3 (head).


Viiiia australis, Samoan Lory.


Mivart, t. c., pi. 26, fig. 1.


V. kuhli, Kohl’s Lory.


Mivart, t. c., pi. 26, fig. 2.


NL., xviii, pi., p. 184.


Wyt., pt. 11, pi. 3 (head).


V. stepheni.


Ibis, 1913, ias., pi. 9.


Coriphilus taitanus, Tahiti Lorikeet.


Mivart, t. c., pi. 27, fig. 1.


Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., i, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1897. (/HL.),


“ immature ” /Salvadori.


Wyt., pt. 11, pi. 3 (head).


C. ultramarinus.


Mivart, t.c., pi. 27, fig. 2.


, Wyt., pt. 11, pi. 3 (head).


C. cyanescens, [Pukple Lorikeet. — Ed.J

Ibis, 1907, 378, 652, pi. 8.


(To be continued.)



LONG-TAILED COMBASOU (Hypochera

ultramarina).


By Pte. A. Silver.


A London dealer received in 1914 among other birds a small

consignment of Combasous. These were disposed of as Long-tailed

Combasous (F hypoclierina), but of those that lived none of the males

assumed other than a dark plumage, and no tail shafts appeared.

From a friend I purchased later a male out of colour, and when it



