PARROT, ai 9 



Le petit Lori de Gueby, Son.Voy. p. 174. t. 109. 21. " 



Le Lori rouge & violet, Buf. oif. vi. p. 135. *■ GUEBY 



Lori de Gueby, PI. enl. 684. LORY. 



*~|pHIS is faid to be half the fize of the Amazons Parrot. Eill Description. 



* and irides the colour of fire : head,, throat, back, belly, and 

 "wing coverts, of as bright a red as carmine : quills black, with a 

 tranfverfe band acrofs their whole breadth : tail red brown. 



Inhabits Gueby*. Place. 



Mr. Sonnerat is not fufficiently explicit "in his deicription ; but I- Remarks. 

 am clear that he means the very fame bird now in my pofierhon, 

 as it anfwers in every particular to his defcription. In my bird, 

 the length is nine inches and a half: the fize is that of the Lory 

 Parrakeet. The band acrofs the wings is of the fame carmine 

 with the reft of the body, with the addition of a broad ring of 

 purple, beginning at the lower part of the neck behind, and 

 pairing to the breaft, where it occupies a broad fpace : there is 

 alfo a bed of blackifh purple on the belly: the tail is cuneiform j 

 the outer feather an inch fhorter than the middle ones: the legs 

 are dufky. I mention this, fuppofing Mr. Sonnerafs bird not 

 having yet come to its full colour, which fome Parrots do not 

 arrive at for two or three years. This beautiful creature I had 

 prefented to me, on its death, by the Right Hon. Lady Mary 

 Scott, who kept it alive for feveral years, during which time it was 

 perfectly docile. 



• I fancy this is laid down in our maps by the name of Gibby, a fmall 

 ifland between Gilolo and New Guinea, 



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