BIRD S OF NEW GUI NE A. aiz 







a fea blue ; bread and belly yellow, fliaded with green ; coverts 

 of the wings black, edged with yellow ; primaries gloffed with 

 fky blue and green ; tail azure, tipt with yellow ; length above 

 fourteen inches. Inhabits New Guinea. 



Black Loeri \ Latham, i. 221. Sonnerat, 175. tab. no: with a 

 duflvv bill ; whole plumage black, with the glofs of metallic 

 blue, and the appearance of velvet ; tail below of a fordid green; 

 legs dufky. Inhabits New Guinea and the Papuan iiles. 



Gueby Loeri\ Lathamy i. 219. Fl. E}tl. 684. Sonneraty 174. 

 tab. 109 : with a pale red bill ; head, neck, breaft, belly, vent, and 

 middle of the back rich fcarlet ; behind each eye an oblique 

 ftroke of black ; breaft, hind part of neck, and the belly, crofTed 

 with lliort femilunar fpots of dark violet; coverts of wings 

 fcarlet ; the lower irregularly f^^otted with black ; primaries and 

 fecondaries black, varied with a few red fpots ; a great trian- 

 gular fpot of dark violet marks the farther parts of the wings 

 about the fcapulars, and covers the adjacent part of the back ; 

 tail of a copper color ; length about nine inches. Inhabits Gueby , 

 between GiMo and Neiv Guinea, 



Gilolo Loeri \ Latham, i. 274. Sonnerat, i^j^. tab. 112. PI.Enl. 

 519: with the whole plumage fcarlet, excei3t the firft primaries, 

 and the ends of the others, which are black ; on the coverts are 

 two blue fpots, and on the vent another; tail of a fine carmine, 

 the end chefnut. Inhabits Gilolo, 



It may be obferved that the name of Loeris is given to fuch 

 parrots as have the bill weaker, lefs crooked, and more fliarp 

 pointed than the others ; which have a more lively look, greater 

 alacrity and fuddennefs in their movements ; their voice more 



piercing, 



