LORD—LORY 519 
North America for all the species of the genus Colymbus, or Eudytes 
according to some ornithologists, frequently with the prefix Sprat, 
indicating the kind of fish on which they are supposed to prey ; 
though it is the local name of the Great Crested Grebe, Podicipes 
cristatus, wherever that bird is sufficiently well known to have 
one; and, as appears from Grew (Mus. Reg. Soc. p. 69), it was 
formerly given to the little Grebe or Dascuicx, P. fluviatilis or 
minor, as well. The other form, Loom, seems more confined in its 
application to the north, and is said by Mr. T. Edmondston (tym. 
Gloss. Shetl. and Orkn. Dialect, p. 67) to be the proper name in 
Shetland of Colymbus septentrionalis ;1 but it has come into common 
use among Arctic seamen as the name of the species of GUILLEMOT, 
Alca arra or bruennichi, which in thousands throngs the cliffs of far 
northern lands, from whose (hence called) “loomeries” they obtain 
a considerable stock of wholesome food, while the writer believes 
he has heard the word locally applied to the RAZORBILL. 
LORD, the Newfoundland name for what is now commonly 
called the HARLEQUIN-DuckK (Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 99). 
LORIKEET, the diminutive of 
LORY, a word of Malayan origin signifying PArrot,? which is 
in general use with slight variation of form in many European 
languages, and is the name of certain birds of the Order Psittaci, 
mostly from the Moluccas and New Guinea, and remarkable for 
their bright scarlet or crimson colouring, though also, and perhaps 
subsequently, applied to some others in which the plumage is 
chiefly green. Among the birds so called are some that have 
1 Dunn and Saxby, however, agree in giving ‘‘ Rain-Goose” as the name of 
this bird in Shetland. 
2 The anonymous author of a Vocabulary of the English and Malay Lan- 
guages, published at Batavia in 1879, in which the words are professedly spelt 
according to their pronunciation, gives it Looree. Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 
p. 125) states that it comes from the bird’s cry, which is likely enough in the 
case of captive examples taught to utter a sound resembling that of the name 
by which they are commonly called. Nieuhoff (Voyages par mer et par terre a 
differents lieux des Indes. Amsterdam: 1682-92) seems to have first made the 
word ‘‘ Lory” known (¢f. Ray, Synops. Aviwm, p. 151). Crawfurd (Dict. Engl. 
and Malay Languages, p. 127) spells it nori or nwri; and in the first of these 
forms it is used, says Dr. Finsch (Die Pupageien, ii. p. 732), by Pigafetta. 
Aldrovandus (Ornith. lib. xi. cap. 1) noticed a Parrot called in Java nor, and 
Clusius (Exotica, p. 364) has the same word. This will account for the name 
noyra or noira applied by the Portuguese, according to Buffon (ut supra, pp. 
125-127) ; but the modern Portuguese seem to call a Parrot generally Lowro, and 
in the same language that word is used as an adjective, signifying bright in 
colour. The French write the word Lowry (cf. Littré, swb voce). The Lory of 
colonists in South Africa is a Touracoo ; and King Lory is a name applied by 
dealers in birds to the Australian Parrots of the genus Aprosmictus. 
