PARROT. *75 



glofiy light: blue : lower belly and vent the fame : two or three 

 of the thigh feathers alfo pale blue : the greater wing coverts 

 have the ends blue ; the quills red j but the fecondaries have 

 dark blue ends, and the primaries greenifh black ones. The 

 baftard wing dufky black: the tail of a dull red, with dufky 

 margins. 



Said to come from the Eajl-Indies. Place. 



Le grand Lori, Buf. oif. vi. p. 135. 81. 



Lori de la Nouvelle Guinee, PL ml. 683. GRAND LORY. 



Purper-roode Loeri, Vofmaer. Monog. 1769. p. 10. t. 7. 



^iPHIS is the largeft of all the Lories, being thirteen inches in Description. 



length. The bill is black : the head and neck are fine red : 

 the lower part of the neck next the back violet blue : bread 

 richly clouded with red, blue, violet, and green ; the mixture of 

 green and red goes on to the belly : the quills, and edge of the 

 wing from the fhoulder, fky blue : the reft of the plumage is a 

 deep red : half of the tail is red, and the end yellow : legs afh- 

 coloured. 



Mr. Vofmaer * fpeaks of it as coming from Ceylon ; but Buffon 

 fuppofes it firft to have been brought there from another place. 

 The three laft-mentioned feem to run much one into another, as 

 to colour; but as we have the above authorities for placing them 

 as diftincTt fpecies, we fhall fo do, till a better acquaintance with 

 them may clear up the doubt. 



* He fays, that it is bigger than the Erithacus, and lefs than the JEJlivus. 



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