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2. EOS RETICULATA. 



(THE BLUE-STREAKED LORY.) 

 [Plate VI.] 



The Slue-necked Lory, Latham, Gen. Hist. ii. p. 136 (1822). 



The Reticulated or Blue-streaked Lory, Greene & Dutton, Parrots in Captivity, vol. iv. 



pi. iii. p. 13 (1887). 

 Psittacus reticulatus, S. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 107, 108 (1839-1811). 

 Psittacus cyanostictus, Sclileg. Hancll. i. p. 184 (1857). 

 Lorius borneus, Less, (nee Stepli.), Tr. d'Orn. p. 192 (1831). 

 Lorius reticulatus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 128 (1862). 

 Domicella reticulata, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 797 (1868). 

 Eos cyanostriata, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 117, n. 9, pi. 103 (1815). 

 Los bornea, Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 226. 

 Eos reticulatus, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 151 (1870). 

 Eos reticulata, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 226 ; Salvadori, Ornitologia Papuasia e delle 



Molucche, parte i. p. 315 (1880) ; Sharpe, Gould's B. New Gain. vol. v. pi. xxxv. 



(1883) ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 20 (1891). 



Body, including uropygium, red ; tail black above; upper wing-coverts red ; hind neck and interscapular 

 region with blue shaft-streaks. 



Habitat. Tirnor-laut and Tenimber Islands. 



This beautiful bird has been known more than seventy years, but its native habitat was 

 long mistaken. As early as 1822 Lord Stanley (afterwards Earl of Derby and President of 

 the Zoological Society) had a specimen in his collection. Mr. H. O. Porbes, who himself 

 shot several specimens, tells us that it is common in all the Tenimber Islands visited by him, 

 and that he found it everywhere a favourite cage-bird with the natives. "We have had six 

 individuals of this species in the Parrot-house of the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. 

 The Hon. and B/ev. P. G. Button tells us that the bird is tolerably hardy and long-lived, if 

 carefully and rationally treated. He is not certain, but he is inclined to think that he has 

 heard it repeat simple words. 



This species differs strikingly from the preceding one in that it has bright blue shaft- 

 streaks on the upper part of the back, in the absence of the black patch (so conspicuous in 

 E. cyanogenys) on the upper part of the wing, and in the less intense black of the tail. 



The body is red, its underparts mottled with darker red. The head and neck are also 



