LORICULUS. 463 



Head and nape violet blue, duller on the sides of the head and on the cheeks ; 

 back and scapulars blackish, or dusky black ; rump and upper tail coverts 

 violet blue ; middle tail feathers green, the rest yellow; lesser wing coverts with 

 a crimson patch, median and greater series, also the tertiaries, green, edged with 

 yellow; primary coverts blue ; quills brown* on their inner webs, green at tip 

 and on the outer webs ; plumage of the under surface yellowish, blue on the 

 abdomen ; the thighs and under tail coverts green, mottled with blue, and the 

 under wing coverts and axillaries crimson. The female differs much from the 

 male. The top of the head is greenish, tinged with brown, and the feathers are 

 fringed with rufous ; the lores and sides of the head are yellowish, the feathers 

 dark shafted ; back and scapulars green, edged paler ; rump blue, fringed with 

 green; upper tail coverts and lower plumage green. (Oates.) Bill with the 

 upper mandible orange vermilion ; lower one dull reddish brown ; legs and 

 feet dirty green ; eyelids and cere dusky green ; irides creamy white. (Davison.) 



Length. 7*3 to 7'5 inches; tail 2; wing 4*8; tarsus O'$ ; bill from 

 gape 07 5. 



Hab. Tenasserim in British Burmah from the south up to Tavoy and 

 Nwalabo mountain, where Mr. Davison found it abundant. Extends to Cochin- 

 China and down the Malay Peninsula to Singapore. It is also found in 

 Sumatra and Borneo. Gates, quoting Mr. Davison, says it is a migratory species, 

 and that it arrives in the Tenasserim division about the beginning of April. 

 He however questions the statement. It is said to go about in small flocks. 



Sub-Family. LQRiiN^ LORIES. 



Bill small and compressed, slightly curved, margin of upper mandible some- 

 times sinuated ; lower mandible slender, conic, longer than high. 



Gen. LoriculUS. Blyth. 



Bill small, nearly O'5 in length, curving from the base ; upper mandible 

 much longer than the lower, sinuated at the margin, moderately hooked and 

 tapering to a fine point ; lower mandible small ; wings nearly as long as the 

 tail ; ist and 2nd quills longest; tail short, even, or barely rounded. (Jerd.) 



1088- LoriCUlUS vernalis (Sparrm.), Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 265 ; 

 Wald., P. Z. S. 1866, p. 538; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 119; id., 

 Str. F. ii. p. 185; iii. p. 57; Blyth, B. Bitrrn. p. 58; Armstrong, Str. F. 

 iv. p. 309; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 120; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 87; 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 161 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 190. Psittacus vernalis, 

 Sparrm., Mus. Carls, ii. No. 29. Coryllis vernalis, Finsch, Die Papageieu ii. 

 p. 72. The INDIAN LORIQUET. 



Whole head shining grass green ; rump and upper tail coverts crimson ; 

 back green, tinged with yellowish ; tail bluish green, tipped yellowish ; scapu- 

 lars, wing coverts and tertiaries dark green ; quills green, their outer webs 

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