214 LAND OF PAPUAS, or NEW GUINEA. 



pi. 22. Promerops de la Nouvelle Guinee ; PL Enl. 638. The tail 

 of this fpecies is alfo long, but far inferior to that of the other, 

 which is a chefd'ceuvre of nature in its kind. 



These birds beings; peculiar to the land of Papua or Nezv 

 Guinea, I have, out of all fyftem, began with them, I now re- 

 fume the regular order, and go on with the firft proper genus of 

 thelift. 

 Parrot. New Guinea ; Sonnerat, 174. tab. 108. Latham, i. 296 : with 



upper mandible pale yellow, lower black; head, neck, breaft, 

 coverts of wings, and the tail of a bright grafs green ; primaries 

 of an indigo color, inner coverts carmine : inhabits Ne%v Guinea, 



Papuan Loeri; Latham, i. 215. Sonn. N. Guinee, iii. 175: with 

 red bill and legs ; head, neck, and .breaft of a lively carmine 

 color. On the hind part of the head is an oblong tranfverfe fpot, 

 of a moft linking blue above, and violet black beneath ; on the 

 middle of the neck behind is another of a violet black ; wings 

 iliort, and of a gay green ; back, between the flT.oulders, of the 

 fame color ; the reft of the back is ornarnented with a ftripe of 

 bright blue quite to the tail, bounded on each fide by lively red. 

 On each fide of the breaft, and beneath the thighs, is a fpot of 

 bright yellow; upper part of the belly and vent feathers red; 

 middle of the belly blue. The tail is for two thirds of its length 

 green, lower part yellow : two of the miJdle feathers exceed the 

 others greatly in length. This alfo is a native of the Papuan 

 illes. 



Great-hilled Loeri \ de Buffon,v\. 122. PI. Enl. 713. Latham, i. 

 178 : with a bill of a bipod red, moft difproportionably large ; 

 head blue ; neck of a bright green, gloffed with gold ; back of 



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