9G BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



collar and dull blackish olive mark on the abdomen are marks 

 by which it may readily be distinguished. 



Gilbert remarks, that " this species is abundant in all parts 

 of the Cobourg Peninsula and the adjacent islands, and is an 

 especial favourite with the natives, who carefully preserve the 

 heads of all they kill, for the purpose of ornamenting their 

 persons by slinging them to the arm a little above the elbow. 

 It is generally seen in large flocks, feeding on the summits of 

 the loftiest trees. Its flight is rapid in the extreme. Like 

 the other Trichoglossi, its food consists of honey and the buds 

 of flowers. 



The sexes present very little difference in appearance. 



Head and cheeks resplendent blue ; throat and abdomen 

 deep olive-green ; chest crossed by a broad band of orange- 

 red ; a narroAv band of the same colour across the occiput, 

 below which band is a broader one of deep blue, the basal 

 portion of the feathers being red ; back, wings, tail, and 

 under tail-coverts grass-green ; basal half of the inner webs 

 of the primaries yellow; irides red, with a narrow ring of 

 yellowish round the pupil ; bill vermilion ; tarsi silken green 

 in front ; inside of the feet and back of the tarsi ash-grey. 



Sp. 446. TRICHOGLOSSUS CHLOROLEPIDOTUS. 

 Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. 



Psittacus chlorolepidotus, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Acta, vol. x. p. 48. 

 Trichoglossus matoni, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 292. 

 chlorole^ndotus, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., p. 550. 



Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., 

 vol. V. pi. 50. 



The present Lorikeet inhabits New South Wales. To give 

 any detailed account of its habits and mode of life would be 

 merely repeating what I have said respecting the Trichoglossus 

 multicolor, with which it frequently associates and even feeds 



