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THE PARROT TRIBE 



and the manner in which he will imitate domestic sounds, throwing his voice to the 

 opposite side of the room, is perfectly startling to a stranger." The black -capped, 

 or tricolored lory (L. lory}, from New Guinea, etc., belongs to the group in which 

 there is no yellow gorget; it has the whole of the abdomen blue, a red throat, green 

 wings, and a black cap. 



The loriquets are smaller birds than the lories, with the tail feath- 

 ers elongated and gradually tapering to a more or less acute point. 

 In the present genus, of which we take Swainson's loriquet ( Trichoglossus novte- 

 hollandice') as a well-known example, the prevailing color of the plumage, both above 

 and below, is green; the tail feathers being entirely of this hue, and moderate in 

 length. The two middle feathers of the tail are not greatly elongated; while the 



SWAINSON'S 



(One-half natural size.) 



four or five first primaries of the wings are not greatly narrowed at their tips. On 

 the forehead the streaks on the shafts of the feathers are more or less blue, while 

 the breast is more or less tinged with red; these two characteristics serving to dis- 

 tinguish these birds from the members of the allied genus Psitteuteles. The range 

 of these loriquets extends from New Guinea to Celebes. Swainson's loriquet attains 

 a total length of twelve inches, of which five and one-half inches are taken up by the 

 tail, and is thus one of the largest representatives of the genus. In coloration it is, 

 perhaps, the handsomest of all the Australian parrots; the head and throat being of a 



