English Names for the Parrots.



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the RED-MASKED CONURE, and other green Parrakeets of that

part of the world. ( Cf. “ Laura,” above).


LORY (occasional obsolete variants, *Luri, *Lury, *Loury), a member of

the family Loriidae, which contains 14 genera from New Guinea,

Australia, and the Malay Islands. They are generally divided into

LORIES and LORIKEETS, the former short-tailed, the latter long¬

tailed, but this distinction is not always strictly followed in their

nomenclature.


(2) The name is also often (but incorrectly) popularly used for other

kinds of Parrots ; these are enclosed in brackets in the following list

of English names :


[Australian Lory, an old name for PENNANT’S PARRAKEET],

[Beautiful Lory (Latham), ditto].


BLACK LORY.


♦Black-Capped Lory, and *First Black-Capped Lory, see THREE-

COLOURED LORY.


♦Second Black-Capped Lory, see PURPLE-CAPPED LORY.


[“ Black-Tailed Lory,” see BLACK-TAILED PARRAKEET],

Blue-Breasted Lory, (i) An occasional book name for the BLUE¬

TAILED LORY ; [(2) A name of Latham’s ?=the female CERAM

ECLECTUS],


BLUE-CHEEKED LORY.


Blue-Diademed Lory, the BLUE-TAILED LOR\ r , see under RED

LORY (3).


♦Blue-Fringed Lory, see RED LORY.


BLUE-NAPED LORY. — Lorius cyanauchen.


Blue-Necked Lory, the BLUE-STREAKED LORY.

BLUE-STREAKED LORA r , see under RED LORY (2).

Blue-Striped Lory, the BLUE-STREAKED LORY.


Blue-Tailed Lory, see under B.


To be continued).



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.



BLUE-BONNET PLUCKED BARE.


Miss Drummond writes:—


Dear Sir,—If you are able to help me as to curing a female Blue Bonnet

Parrakeet of feather plucking, I shall be more than grateful. I have the bird in

a cage, as in the aviary she was always tumbling about, and I thought she would

kill herself. She is now exactly like a plucked bird ready for roasting, the skin

very red: but she is as cheerful and full of fun and life as ever.



