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been referred to a considerable number of genera, of which Eclectus, 
Lorius (the Domicella of some authors), Hos, and Chalcopsittacus may 
be here particularized, while under the equally vague name of 
LORIKEETS may be comprehended the genera Charmosyna, Loriculus, 
and Coriphilus. By most systematists some of these forms have 
been placed far apart, even in different Families of Psitiaci, but 
Garrod shewed (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 586-598, and 1876, 
p. 692) the many common characters they possess, which thus goes 
some way to justify the relationship implied by their popular 
designation. Perhaps the most complete account of these birds is 
that of Count 'F. Salvadori (Ornitol. Papuas. parte i. Torino: 1880; 
Aggiunte, 1889), who has subsequently treated of them technically 
(Cat. B. Br. Mus. xx. London: 1891). Of the genus Eclectus the 
Italian naturalist admits six species, namely, EH. pectoralis and 
E. roratus (which are respectively the polychlorus and grandts of 
most authors), £. cardinalis (otherwise intermedius), H. westermani, 
and F. cornelia—all no doubt from the Papuan Subregion, 
though the precise habitat of the last two is unknown—as well 
as EE. riedeli, from Cera or Seirah, one of the Tenimber 
group, of which Timor Laut is the chief, to the south-west of New 
Guinea, first described by Dr. A. B. Meyer (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 
p- 917).! Much interest was excited by the discovery in 1873, by 
the traveller and naturalist last named, that the birds of this genus — 
possessing a red plumage were the females of those wearing green 
feathers. So unexpected a disclosure announced by him on the 
4th of March 1874,? naturally provoked not a little controversy, 
for the difference of coloration is so marked that it had even been 
proposed to separate the Green from the Red Lories generically ;% 
but now the truth of his assertion is generally admitted, and the 
story is very fully told by him in a note contributed to Gould’s 
Birds of New Guinea (part viii. 1st October, 1878), though several 
interesting matters therewith connected are still undetermined. 
Among these is the question of the colour of the first plumage of 
the young, a point not without important signification to the 
student of phylogeny.* 
Though the name Lory has long been used for the species of 
Eclectus, and other genera related thereto, some writers would 
restrict its application to the birds of the genera Lorius, Hos, 
i There seems just a possibility of this, however, proving identical with 
either Z. westermani or E. cornelia—both of which are very rare in collections. 
2 Verhandl. z.-b. Geselisch. Wien, 1874, p. 179; and Zool. Garten, 1874, 
p. 161. 
3 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 226. 
4 The chemical constitution of the colouring matter of the feathers in Helectus 
has been treated by Dr. Krukenberg of Heidelberg (Vergl. physiol. Stud. Reihe 
ii. Abth. i. p. 161 reprinted in Mittheil. Orn. Ver. Wein, 1881, p. 83). 
