PAR 



T. 



27 s; 



the tail feathers are reddifh yellow 5 round the knees a blue gar- 

 ter: legs brown: claws black. 



I perceived a further variety in the collection of Dr. Hunter, 

 which had many of the wing coverts tipped with blue, and no 

 garter round the bottom of the knee : otherwife like the others* 



Inhabits the Molucca IJles. 



Placfw 



Pfittacus domicella, Liu. Sjjl. i. p. 14^. N° 26. 



Le Lory des Indes orientales, Brif. orn. iv. p. 222. N a 1 5V t. 24. (it, PI. 



enlum. 84. la femelle. 

 Le Lori a Collier, Buf. oif. vi. p. 130. femakt 

 Second black-cap Lory, Ed<w. iv. t. 171. 



Lev. Muf. 



QIZE of the others : length near eleven inches. Bill red : cere 

 and round the eyes afh-colour : irides orange : top of the head 

 purplifh black: neck, body, and tail fcarlet ; the laft tipped 

 with green : on the breaft is an obfeure * yellow crefcent : the- 

 lower thigh feathers are blue supper wing coverts green; the' 

 tmder ones blue :. edge of the wings blue and green mixed;, 

 legs blackifh. 



Inhabits the Eaft-IndieSi . 



77- 

 h PURPLE- 

 CAPPED 

 LORY. 



Descriptjow^ 



P£ac 



E, 



Le Lory a Collier des Indes, Brif. orn. iv. p. 230;' N° iS* 

 Le Lori a Collier, Buf. oif. vi. p. 131. 

 Le Lori male des Indes orientales, PL enl. 119,. 

 Laurey from the Brafils, Albiit: i. t. 13. 



77- 

 Var. A. 



BLUE-CAPPED 



LORY. 



ILL yellowilh : round the eyes black : irides yellow: upper Description. 

 part of the head of a fhining blue : neck, throat, back, fca- 



* The yellow is confpicuous only when the feathers are blown back, not aj-' 

 they lay over one another, according to Brijfon.- - 



6& pilars,. 



