274 PARROT. 



cere and round the eyes blackifh : irides orange : general colour 

 deep crimfon : breaft, belly, fides, thighs, under tail and lefTer 

 under wing coverts, deep violet : greater under wing coverts 

 blackifh brown : prime quills dull red, but of a blackifh brown 

 on the infides and beneath : tail feathers * deep fcarlet, tipped 

 with a pale dirty red : legs brown : claws black. 



In the Planches Enluminees, and that figured by Brown, the bill 

 is black. In the laft, the greater quills and one of the feconda- 

 ries are blue, though not mentioned in his defcription. The ends 

 of the tail feathers are orange yellow : legs dufky : claws black. 



g ^ Lori de Gilolo, San, Voy. p. 177. t. 112V 



MOLUCCA- Le Lori rouge, Buf. oif. vi, p, 134. 



LORY - Lori de la Chine, PI. enl. 5 19. 



•Description. HPHIS is ten inches in lengthy and the plumage almoft entirely 

 red. The bill and irides are of the colour of orpiment, and the 

 eye is placed in an oval of black, running out into a point before 

 and behind : on the middle of the wing there is an ultramarine 

 blue f fpot ; and the under tail coverts are of the fame colour. 

 The quills are black : and the end of the tail cheftnut. 

 Place. This inhabits the Moluccas, and New Guinea. 



80. I™. Mu/l 



Var. A. 



Description. [ENGTH nine inches. Bill red : cere and orbits blueifh : 

 general colour of the plumage deep red : fcapulars of a 



* The two middle feathers are a trifle longer than the others ; but fcarce 

 enough fo, to place it among thofe with pointed tails. 

 t Two, according to Buffon, in the middle of the back* , 



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