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 4. CHALCOPSITTACUS DUYVENBODEI. 



(DUYVENBODE'S LORY.) 

 [Plate III.] 



Chalcopsittacus duyvenbodei, Dubois, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Belgique, vol. iii. p. 113, 

 plate v. (1884) ; T. Salvador]', Mem. R. Accad. Sc. Torino, ser. 2, vol. xl. p. 170 (1889) ; 

 id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. vol. xx. p. 16 ; Hon. Walter Rothschild, Novitates 

 Zoologies, vol. i. Sept. 1894, p. 677. 



Olive-brown; forehead yellow ; a yellow band on cheeks and throat; tibiee orange-yellow. "Eyes red 

 and black, bare skin round the eyes blue." * 



Habitat. Humboldt Bay, North New Guinea. 



The type of this very distinct species is preserved in the Museum of Brussels, whither it was 

 sent from New Guinea by Mr. C. W. K. van Duyvenbode, after whom it was named by its 

 first describer M. Alph. Dubois. There is no specimen of this Lory in the British Museum, 

 but the Hon. "Walter Rothschild has been fortunate enough to obtain no less than four 

 examples of it, and it is to his great kindness that we are indebted for being able to supply 

 the accompanying figure drawn from one of them. 



Nothing is known of the habits or character of this bird. Its coloration is well shown 

 in our Plate. Its general colour is dark olive-brown ; the forehead, as far backwards as 

 above the eyes, is orange-yellow, and a band of the same colour descends from the lores, 

 widening in its descent, and embracing the lower jaw. The vertex and occiput are dusky 

 olive-brown, but the nape and the sides of the neck are garnished with long narrow feathers, 

 which are ochre-yellow along the middle and towards their apices. The primaries and their 

 coverts are black, but the internal webs of the quill-feathers of the Aving towards the base 

 are of a rich golden yellow, as are also the smaller wing-coverts towards the bend of the 

 wing, and the under wing-coverts. The lower back and the rump are violet-blue ; the ear- 

 coverts, the hinder part of each cheek, the lower part of the throat, and all the breast are 

 olive-brown, but the hidden parts of the feathers of the breast are yellow, and then- edges 

 are yellowish also ; the tail above is dark purple, with an olive tinge towards the edges of 

 the feathers ; below the tail of a golden-olive tint ; the under tail-coverts are violet-blue. 

 The naked parts of the head round the eyes are blue. The bill, the cere, and the feet are 

 blackish, but the tibiae are orange-yellow. 



Captains Webster and Cotton shot a specimen of this rare bird at Stephansort, in German 

 New Guinea, on November 18, 1893 t. 



Total length about 12 inches, wing 7, tail 5 - 3, culmen 0"95, tarsus 0"7S. 



Count Salvadori has no doubt about this singular black-billed Lory belonging to the 

 genus Chalcopsittacus, although he finds that it bears a certain resemblance to Eos fuscata. 



* ' Xovitates Zoologies?,' loc. cit. f ' Novitates Zoologies:,' loc. tit. 



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