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5. CHALCOPSITTACUS S CINT ILL ATUS. 



(THE YELLOW-STREAKED LORY.) 

 [Plate IV. Figs. 1 & 3.] 



Amber Parrot, Latliani, Syst. i. Suppl. p. 65, no. 144 (1787). 



Psittacus batavensis, Latliani [nee Wagler), Index Ornithol. i. pp. 126, 128 (1790). 



Psittacus scintillatus, Teniminck, Planches Coloriees, pi. 569 (1835). 



Psittacus scintillans, Mtiller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 22, 127 (1839-41). 



Eorius scintillatus, Bourjot, Perroquets, pi. 51 (1837-38). 



Domicella scintillata, Binsch, Papageien, ii. p. 752 (1868) ; Reichenow, Vogelbild. t. xxxi 



fig. 2 (1878-83). 

 Eos scintillatus, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 417 (1845) ; D'Albertis, Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Genova, x. p. 8 (1877). 

 Eos rubrifrons, Gray, List of Psitt. in Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1859). 

 Chalcopsitta scintillata, Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, i. p. 3 (1850). 

 Chalcopsitta scintillans, Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 26. 

 Chalcopsitta rubrifrons, G. B. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S58, pp. 182, 194, pL 135. 

 Chalcopsitta chloropterus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii. p. 254 (1878-79). 

 Chalcopsittacus chloropterus, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ix. p. 15 (1876). 

 Chalcopsittacus scintillatus, D'Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, x. p. 19 (1877) ; 



T. Salvadori, torn. cit. p. 34 (1877) ; id. Ornit. Papuasia, i. p. 274 ; id. Cat. of Birds 



in Brit. Mus. vol. xx. p. 16 (1891) ; Gould & Sharpe, Birds of New Guinea, vol. v. 



pi. 38 (1888). 



Under wing-coverts and axillaries red ; feathers of head and neck with shaft-streaks mostly orange-yellow. 

 Habitat. Western Northern New Guinea and the Aru Islands. 



This Lory, according to Dr. A. R. Wallace, has a very docile disposition and is easily 

 domesticated. A specimen was living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in 

 October 1872. 



Salomon Miiller found this species at Lobo Bay, and Dr. A. B. Meyer obtained it at 

 Bubie. Baron von Bosenberg met with it in Geelvink Bay, and Dr. Beccari at Mesan. 

 D'Albertis found it on the Fly Biver and near Port Moresby. 



The general colour is green, the middle of the back and rump being brighter and some- 

 what of a bluish green, ornamented with very narrow shaft-streaks of yellow. The sinciput, 

 the lores, and the upper parts of the cheeks are red. The sides of the head and the chin are 

 a very dark brown, almost blackish. The occiput is also dark brown, the feathers being 



