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Synonyms. 



Psittacus puniceus, Gm. (exclus. specimin. rostro rubro.) 



Lorius amboinensis? Briss. Orn. iv. p. 231. sp. 19. 



Psittacus cardinalis? Bodd. ex Lory d'Amboine, Bicf. PL Enl. 518, 



Domicella ! punicea? Wagl. Man. Psitt. in Act. Monac. p. 569. 

 gen. xiii. sp. 3. 



Eclectus Limisei, Wagl. Mon. Ps. p. 5/1. gen. xiv. sp. 1 ; Gray, 

 Gen. tab. 103. f. 1. 



Lorius cardinalis? G. Gray, nee Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Astrolabe 

 et Zelee. 



Hub. New Guinea, where it has been killed often on the west coast 

 near Lobo, by M. Sal. Muller. 



Tlie 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 Linnoii, and consequently that puniceus, 

 which Kuhl only went a little too far in confounding with B. grandis, 

 far from being generically distinct, is, even as a species, very nearly 

 allied to it. 



2. Eclectus grandis. E. coccineus, dorso, alis, cauddque, pur- 

 pureo-fuscescentibus ; margine alarum, tectricibus inferioribus, 

 remigibusque, apice cyaneis ; abdomine, et torque intei'scapulari, 

 subviolaceis ; crisso, et caudee apice, luteis. 



Synonyms. 



Psittacus grandis, Gm. Lath. Kuhl (who unites the preceding 

 with it). 



Psittacus ceylonensis, Bodd. ex Lory de la Nouvelle Guinee, Buff. 

 PI. Enl. 683; Brown, III. tab. 6; Levaillant, Perr. tab. 126 adult, 

 127 junior, 128 juv, 



Eclectus grandis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Act. Monac. 1832, p. 5/3. 

 gen. xiv. sp. 2. 



Eclectus ceylonensis, G. Gray, Genei'a 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. Eclectus Cornelia. E. coccineus, dorso, alis, cauddque, pur- 

 pureo-fuscescentibns ; margine alarum remigibusque apice cya- 

 neis ; tectricibus inferioribus rubro cyaneoque variis ; abdomine, 

 crisso, et caudce apice, rubris concoloribus. 



I have named this beautiful bird after H. Schlegel'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 uncatalngued Leydcn Mu- 



