LORIUS.  garrulus. 
Ceram Lory. 
et 
Family Psittacide. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill moderate, compressed, end of the upper mandible, within, 
entirely smooth; under mandible lengthened, conic; the tip 
entire. Legs stout; Tail moderate, rounded or graduated 5 
the feathers broad, their tips obtuse. Nob. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scarlet : wings green, shoulders yellow, half of the tail bluish black. 
Psittacus garrulus. Lin. 144. Kuhl. Cons. Psit. p. 41. No. 56. 
Le Lori-Noira. Buffon. Sonn. 27. p. 126. Pl. Enl. 216. 
Le Perroquet Lori Nouara. Levail. 2. pl. 96. 
Scarlet Lory. Edw. pl. 172. 
Le Lory de Ceram. Briss. Orn. 4. 215. 
— Ee 
Tue popular name of Lories has long been given to those 
Parrots, peculiar to the continent and islands of India, 
whose brilliant red plumage forms a strong contrast to the 
green colour which generally pervades this family. The 
southern limits of their distribution do not extend to Aus- 
tralia, but much of their general structure is transferred to 
the Lory- Parrakeets, forming the modern genus Jricho- 
glossus ; this latter group being diffused over the remaining 
islands of the great Pacific Ocean. 
The Ceram Lory, from being well known, and exhibiting 
the prominent characters of its tribe, is a correct type of 
the genus. Its length is about eleven inches. The general 
colour is rich scarlet, with the wings and thighs green: the 
bend of the shoulder, (and sometimes a spot on the back,) 
is yellow. Tail graduated, the lower half of the feathers 
deep blackish green, glossed with blue. Inhabits the 
Molueea Islands. 
Notwithstanding the attention recently bestowed in cha- 
racterizing the groups of this family, the most important 
external peculiarity of Lorius and Trichoglossus has been 
overlooked. In these birds, that part of the roof of the under 
mandible which projects beyond the lower, is generally 
thin, and always perfectly smooth : a weakness of structure 
which renders’ it impossible for these parrots to feed upon 
hard substances ; and betrays their frugivorous and sucto- 
rial nature, by indications perceptible to ev ery one. 
