ON 



A EECENT ADDITION 



TO THE SPECIES OE 



THE GENUS LORICULUS. 



By p. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



(Plate LXXIL) 



In the Seventh Part of the 'Ornithological Miscellany' Dr. Meyer has 

 given an excellent summary of the species of the genus Loriculus as then 

 known to him, and a geographical table of their range and distribution. As 

 it happens that I have lately had the pleasure of describing a new 

 member of this elegant group of little Parrots from a country outside the 

 area over which it was known to Dr. Meyer to extend, and as the use of 

 Mr. Smit's services has been offered me by Mr. Rowley to add to the 

 series of beautiful illustrations which he has already «:iven us of these birds, 

 I have resolved to take advantage of Mr. Rowley's liberality, and to make 

 a short addition to his notes on this subject. 



In the fine collection of birds made by the Rev. George Brown, 

 C.M.Z.S., on Duke-of-York Island and on the adjoining parts of New 

 Britain and New Ireland, was a single specimen of a Loriculus which, in my 

 recently pubhshed article on this collection (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 107), I 

 described as follows : — 



VOL. II. 3 E 



