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FORSTEN’S LORIKEET.


GREEN-NAPED LORIKEET.


[Indian Loriquet. THE VERNAL HANGING PARRAKEET is

sometimes thus designated].


LITTLE LORIKEET.


MASSENA’S LORIKEET. = TripBpglossus Massena.


MITCHELL’S LORIKEET. = T. mitchelli.


Musk Lorikeet, the MUSKY L.


MUSKY LORIKEET.


ORNAMENTAL LORIKEET.


Ornamented Lorikeet.


Ornate Lorikeet, see ORNAMENTAL L.


PALM LORIKEET.


PERFECT LORIKEET. =Psitteuteles euteles.


Porphyry-Crowned Lorikeet, see Purple-Crowned Lorikeet.

PURPLE CROWNED LORIKEET. —Glossopsittacus porphyvo-

cephalus, called by Gould the Porphyry-Crowned Lorikeet.

RED-COLLARED LORKIEET. = Trichoglossus rubritorques, a close

ally of SWAINSON’S LORIKEET. Latham’s *Blue-Bellied

Parrot, Var. C. may have meant this species.


Red-Crowned Lorikeet, the VARIED LORIKEET.


[Red-Rumped Lorikeet, an old name for, and sometimes still

popularly applied to, the VERNAL HANGING PARRAKEET],

SCALY-BREASTED LORIKEET.


SWAINSON’S LORIKEET.


[“ Swift Lorikeet,” Gould’s name and Australian vernacular for

the SWIFT PARRAKEET],


TAHITI LORIKEET.


Violet Lorikeet, see under RED LORY (7).


VARIED LORIKEET. = Ptilosclera versicolor ; also called the Red-

Crowned Lorikeet.


WEBER’S LORIKEET. =Psitteuteles weberi.


YELLOWISH-GREEN LORIKEET. = Trichoglossus flavicans.


LORI LET, book name for a bird of the family Cyclopsittacidae, from New

Guinea and neighbourhood. Also known as FIG-PARRAKEETS,

and the native name for some species (of which about twenty are

known), is “ Joa.” The names of the two Australian species are :

BLUE-FACED LORILET, or Coxen’s Fig-Parrakeet. — Cyclop-

sittacus coxeni.


RED-FACED LORILET, C. maccoyi; Sir Wm. Macleay’s Fig-

Parrakeet.


Loriquet. another spelling of LORIKEET.


“ Loro,” popular name in South America for the QUAKER PARRAKEET,



