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Le petit Lori Papou, Son. Voy. p. 175. t. in» 17. 



PAPUAN LORY. 



IZE of the Lory Parrakeet : length fixteen inches. Bill Description. 

 hooked, Iharp at the end, and of a red colour : head, neck, 

 and breaft, of a bright carmine red : on the back part of the 

 head- a fpot of blue; beneath this are two crefcents of black: 

 wings green, fhort; the green colour extends acrofs the middle 

 of the back, forming there a large fpot; the reft of the back to 

 the tail is of a bright red, with a ftreak of blue down the middle : 

 on each fide of the wing, juft at the bafe, is an oblong yellow 

 fpot, and juft above each thigh a large fpot of the fame : the 

 belly and under tail coverts are red : tail cuneiform, and longer 

 than all the reft of the bird; it is green for two thirds of its 

 length, the reft yellow : legs of a bright red. . 



Inhabits Papua. Place. 



CIR Jofepb Banks is in pofleffidn of one of thefe birds, which - 



anfwers to the above defcription; but I obferve, in hisjpeci- Var. A; 



men, that the breaft inclines much to purple; and acrofs ■ the 

 belly is a band of black, edged with green on the upper part : 

 the middle tail feathers are eleven inches in length ; the outer 

 ones only three inches. 



IN the Leverian Mufeum- there are likewife two further varieties, 17. 



The firft of thefe is as big in the body, but the tail fcarcely Var.B, 



half the length: the hind part of the neck blue black, and the 

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