170 PAPUAN LORY. 



of the other members of the group, the tip being 

 furnished with delicate papillae. Upon the vertex 

 arid nape are two irregular bars of azure, margined 

 with purplish- black. The lower parts of the tibia?, 

 lower back, and rump, are also of a deep azure. 

 Upon the sides of the breast and thighs are patches 

 of rich yellow. The wings are green ; the interior 

 webs of the quills blackish. The elongated tail-fea- 

 thers are pale grass-green, passing towards the tips into 

 yellow ; the lateral have their basal half dark green, 

 the remainder deep saffron yellow. This lovely spe- 

 cies is an inhabitant of Papua, and other parts of 

 New Guinea, and, as might be expected in countries 

 rarely visited by the naturalist, little is known of its 

 history or peculiar habits. Its remains, like those 

 of the birds of Paradise, frequently reach us in a mu< 

 tilated state, being deprived of the legs, and often 

 wanting the long feathers of the tail ; and from such 

 specimens have been derived the imperfect descrip- 

 tions of various authors. 



We now enter upon an Australian group, which, 

 in that division of the globe, takes the place of the 

 Indian Lories. The members belonging to it, instead 

 of- having the ground or prevailing colour of the 

 plumage of a red or vermilion tint, have it green, of 

 brighter or deeper shades, according to the species, 

 variegated, however, in many of them, with masses 

 of the first-named colour. In this genus, the tail is 

 more elongated than in the true Lories, and regular- 



