3. CHALCOPSITTACUS INSIGN IS 



(THE RED-QUILLED LORY.) 

 [Plate II.] 



Chalcopsitta insignis, Oustalet, Assoc. Sc. cle France, Bull. no. 533, p. 247 (1878) ; 



T. Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Torino, vol. xiii. p. 312, note (1878). 

 Chalcopsittacus bruijnii, T. Salvadori, Atti 11. Accacl. Torino, vol. xiii. p. 310 (1878). 

 Chalcopsittacus insignis, T. Salvadori, Ornitologia Pap. e Mol. i. p. 272 (1880) ; id. 



Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. vol. xx. p. 15. 

 Psittacus stavorini (?), Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 355 (1826) ; T. Salvadori, Cat. of Birds 



in Brit. .Mus. vol. xx. p. 15. 



Back, breast, and abdomen purplish black ; head darker, forehead and cheeks tinged with red ; quills 

 with the base of the inner web red. 



Habitat. Amberpon Island, Geelvink Bay. 



No specimen of this fine species exists in our National Collection, and we have to thank 

 Dr. Giacinto Martorelli of Milan for a most faithful representation of the bird, drawn and 

 coloured by his own hands, from the specimen preserved in the Museo Civico of that city. 



Count Salvadori informs us that he saw two specimens which had been sent by 

 Mr. Bruijn to M. Laglaize of Paris, which a week after were described by M. Oustalet as 

 Chalcopsitta insignis. 



Our Plate is, we believe, the first figure of the species which has been published. As 

 yet this bird has only been found in the island of Amberpon. 



Count Salvadori has entertained a suspicion that this species is identical with a kind of 

 bird a specimen of which was obtained but afterwards lost, and never since found or identified. 

 This bird was described, apparently from memory, by Lesson, in the Zoology of the Voyage of 

 the ' Coquille ' *, where it is spoken of as " une espece cle lori noir inedite, que nous avons 

 nomme lori de Stavorinus, Psittacus stavorini, parce que ce navigateur nous parait l'avoir 

 mentionnee dans la relation de son voyage aux Indes Orientates. Le lori de Stavorinus est 

 de la taille du tricolore [Lorius lory], auquel il ressemble aussi par les formes corporelles. 

 Son phunage est en entier d'un noir lustre uniforme, excepte sur l'abdomen, ou regne un 

 rouge vif qui s'etend jusqu'a la poitrine. Le seul individu que nous achatames a un Papou 

 a ete perdu dans le naufrage de M. Garnot, au Cap." It is said to have been bought at the 

 island of Waigiou. 



* 'Voyage autour du Monde sur la corvette de sa Majeste La Coquille, pendant les annees 1822-25," Paris, 1S26, 

 pp. 355 and 628. 



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