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Eclectus Linnzi, Wagl. Mon. Ps. p. 571. gen. xiv. sp.1; Gray, 
Gen. tab. 103. f. 1. 
Lorius cardinalis? G. Gray, nee Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Astrolabe 
et Zélée. 
Hab. New Guinea, where it has been killed often on the west coast 
near Lobo, by M. Sal. Muller. 
The iris in this species is black. 
Misled by Wagler, and judging by the plate of Buffon, which cer- 
tainly gives the idea of a true Lorius, Mr. G. R. Gray has, by double 
employment, considered the puniceus as one of these birds in his ‘ Ge- 
nera.’ Should he have seen the Parrot, he would have perceived it to 
be identical with his Eclectus Linnei, and consequently that puniceus, 
which Kuhl only went a little too far in confounding with B. grandis, 
= ope being generically distinct, is, even as a species, very nearly 
lied to it. 
2. Ecrecrus eranpis. LE. coccineus, dorso, alis, cauddque, pur- 
pureo-fuscescentibus ; margine alarum, tectricibus inferioribus, 
remigibusque, apice cyaneis ; abdomine, et torque interscapulari, 
subviolaceis ; crisso, et caude apice, luteis. 
Synonyms. 
anes grandis, Gm. Lath. Kuhl (who unites the preceding 
with it). 
Psittacus ceylonensis, Bodd. ex Lory de la Nouvelle Guinée, Buff. 
Pl. Enl. 683; Brown, Ill.tab. 6; Levaillant, Perr. tab. 126 adult, 
127 junior, 128 juy. 
Eclectus grandis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Act. Monac. 1832, p. 573. 
gen. xiv. sp. 2. 
Eclectus ceylonensis, G. Gray, Genera of Birds. 
Hab. In Insulis Moluccis. 
Often brought from Amboina, but the native place is not well as- 
certained. Doctor Forsten (too often confounded with Forster), one 
of the scientific victims of climate, sent it to Holland from the island 
of Gilolo. 
The iris in this species is golden yellow. 
3. Ecrecrus Corne ia. E. coccineus, dorso, alis, cauddque, pur- 
pureo-fuscescentibus ; margine alarum remigibusque apice cya- 
nets ; tectricibus inferioribus rubro cyaneoque variis ; abdomine, 
crisso, et caude apice, rubris concoloribus. 
(Aves, Pl. X., reduced to half the natural size precisely.) 
I have named this beautiful bird after H. Sehlegel’s virtuous and 
talented wife, whose quick eye detected the species before professed 
ornithologists themselves, who relied on their possessing it among 
the unnumbered treasures of the as yet uncatalogued Leyden Mu- 
seum *; and I dedicate it to that lady with additional pleasure, as a 
* The superiority of the Leyden Museum over any other is unquestionable, not 
perhaps so much on account of its containing a greater number of species than 
those of London, Paris, Philadelphia and Berlin, but for the freshness and perfec- 
