226 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



The British Museum now possesses an apparently adult 

 example of L. salvadorii Meyer, procured by Mr. Walter 

 Groodfellow at Sororig, North-west New Guinea. The bird 

 seems to agree perfectly with the description and figure of 

 L. salvadorii given by Mivart {op. cit. p. 57, pi. xix.), who 

 figured one o£ the typical specimens in the Dresden Museum, 

 procured at Astrolabe Bay, North-east New Guinea. This 

 bird is said to differ from Lorius johiensis Meyer, from the 

 islands of Jobi and Miosnom, in Geelvink Bay, in being- 

 blacker on the nape and belly, but we have no examples of 

 the latter for comparison. 



The Sorono; bird has a wino--measurement of 157 mm. 

 ( = 6*2 ins.) : this agrees exactly with the measurement of 

 the type-specimen, as given by Meyer. In L. johiensis 

 the wing-measurement is 170-180 mm. ( = 6'68-7*07 ins.). 

 L. rubiensis Meyer, from Rubi, is an allied form, but it is 

 easily distinguished from both L. salvadorii and L. johiensis 

 by having the lesser and median under wing-coverts red 

 instead of dark blue. If my identification of our specimen 

 is correct, L. salvadorii must rano-e along the north of New 

 Guinea from Astrolabe Bay, westwards to Sorong. L. sal- 

 vadorii is easily distinguished from the allied L. lory and 

 L. erytlirothorax by having the purplish-black on the lower 

 breast continued across the sides of the body to the under 

 wing-coverts in a wide band, which separates the scarlet 

 flanks from the similarly coloured upper breast ; it also has 

 the lesser and median under wino-coverts blue instead of 

 scarlet and the greater under wing-coverts yellow and black 

 in the adult, as in younger examples of L. lory and L. ery- 

 tlirothorax. In the adult of both the last-named species the 

 greater under wing-coverts are scarlet, like the lesser and 

 median coverts. 



" The Red-breasted Lory is one of the commonest species, 

 especially near the coast. Large flocks frequently passed 

 overhead or were seen in the trees, and if one was shot the 

 remainder seldom took flight. Numbers were kept at the 

 camps by the soldiers and became very tame." — C. H. B. G. 



