P S I T T A C I. 



Fam. TRICHOGLOSSID.E. 



Bill with the upper mandible long, compressed gradually from the base, the tip rather 

 straightened and acute ; under mandible longer than it is high, the tip less obtuse than in the 

 Psittacidce. 



Genus LORICULUS. 

 Bill with the upper mandible long, gently curved, compressed ; margin with a slight lobe 

 near the base ; cere rather advanced ; under mandible shallow and considerably elongated. 

 AVings long, with the 2nd quill the longest, and slightly exceeding the 1st and 3rd. Tail short, 

 rounded, scarcely exceeding the closed wings. Tarsus very short. Toes long, the outer anterior 

 much exceeding the inner, which is about equal to the tarsus ; claws stout, long, and well curved. 



LORICULUS INDICUS. 



(THE CEYLONESE LORIKEET.) 

 (Peculiar to Ceylon.) 





Psittacus indicus, Gra. Syst. Nat. i. p. 349 (1788). 



Psittacus asiaticus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 130 (1790). 



Psittacula indica, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 390 (17G0). 



PsittacuJa contact, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 202 (1831). 



Loriculus asiaticus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, xviii. p. 801 ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 127 



(1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 261 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. 1. Co. ii. p. 028 (1856). 

 Loriculus indicus, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 155 (1842); G. R. Gray, List Psitt. 



Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1859); Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 132 (1864); Walden, Ibis, 



1867, p. 467 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 426 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15. 

 Loriculus edwardsi, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 295 ; Nevill, J. A. S. (Ceylon Br.), 1870-1, p. 32. 

 Coryllis indica, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 714 (1868). 

 The smallest Bed-ami -green Parrakeet, Edwards, Glean, pi. 6 (1743); Red-and-green Indian 



Parrakeet, Lath. Synopsis (1781), also Eed-rumped Parrakcet, Lath. Gen. Hist. (1822) ; 



Das ceylonische Papageichen, Finsch, Papag. ; The Small Ceylon Parrakeet, Kelaart; 



The Ceylon Love-bird of travellers. 

 Gira-malitchia, Pol-girawa, lit. " Flower Parrakeet," Sinhalese. 



Kimilis I. vernali, seel capite et occipite rubris, nucha flavo adumbrata diversus. Jav. capite viridi dorso coneolori 

 distineuendus. 



