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Eclectus Linnsei, Wagl. Mon. Ps. p. 571- gen. xiv. sp. 1 ; Gray, 

 Gen. tab. 103. f. 1. 



Lorius cardinalis ? G. Gray, nee Hombr. et Jacq. Voij. Astrolabe 

 et ZeUe. 



Hah. New Guinea, where it has been killed often on the west coast 

 near Lobo, by M. Sal. MuUer. 



The iris in this species is black. 



INIisled by Wagler, and judging by the plate of Buffon, which cer- 

 tainly gives the idea of a true Lorius, Mr. G. R. Gray has, by double 

 employment, considered the jmnicetis as one of these birds in his ' Ge- 

 nera.' Should he have seen the Parrot, he would have perceived it to 

 be identical with his Eclectus Linncei, and consequently ih&t puniceus, 

 which Kuhl only went a little too far in confounding with B. grandis, 

 far from being generically distinct, is, even as a species, very nearly 

 allied to it. 



2. Eclectus grandis. E. coccineus, dorse, alts, cauddque, pur- 

 pureo-fuscescentibus ; margine alarum, tectricibus inferioribus, 

 remigibusque, apice cyaneis ; abdomine, et torque interscapulari, 

 subviolaceis ; crisso, et caudce apice, luteis. 



Synonyms. 



Psittacus grandis, Gm. Lath. Kuhl (who unites the preceding 

 with it). 



Psittacus ceylonensis, Bodd. ex Lory de la Nouvelle Guinee, Bufi". 

 PI. Enl. 683; Brown, III. tab. 6; Levaillant, Perr. tab. 126 aduU, 

 127 junior, 128 juv. 



Eclectus grandis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Act. Monac. 1832, p. 573. 

 gen. xiv. sp. 2. 



Eclectus ceylonensis, G. Gray, Genera of Birds. 



Hab. In Insulis Moluccis. 



Often brought from Amboina, but the native place is not well as- 

 certained. Doctor Forsten (too often confounded with Forster), one 

 of the scientific victims of climate, sent it to Holland from the island 

 of Gilolo. 



The iris in this species is golden yellow. 



3. Eclectus Cornelia. E. coccineus, dorso, al is, cauddque, pur- 

 pureo-fuscescentibus ; margine alarum remigibusque apice cya- 

 neis ; tectricibus inferioribus rnbro cyaneoque variis ; abdomine, 

 crisso, et caudce apice, rubris concoloribus. 



(Aves, PI. X., reduced to half the natural size precisely.) 



I have named this beautiful bird after H. Schlegel's virtuous and 

 talented wife, whose quick eye detected the species before professed 

 ornithologists themselves, who relied on their possessing it among 

 the unnumbered treasures of the as yet uncatalogued Leyden Mu- 

 seum * ; and I dedicate it to that lady with additional pleasure, as a 



* The superiority of the Leyden Museum over any other is unquestional)le, not 

 perhaps so much on account of its containing a greater niunber of species than 

 those of London, Paris, Philadelphia and Berlin, but for the freshness and perfec- 



