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5. EOS CARDINALIS. 



(THE CARDINAL LORY.) 

 [Plate VIII.] 



Lori Cardinal, Hombron et Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 24 bis, fig. 2 (1845). 



Triclioglossus cardinalis, Rclmw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 162. 



Lorius cardinalis, G. B. Gray, Genera of Birds, App. p. 20 (1849) ; Bamsay, Pr. Limi. 



Soc. N. S. W. iv. p. 68 (1879). 

 Domicella cardinalis, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 785 (1868) ; id. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 128, pi. xi. 

 Domicella Eos cardinalis, Bchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, p. 232 ; id. Vogelbild. t. xxxiii. 



fig. 4 (1878-S3). 

 Eos unicolor, Wall, (nee Sliaw), P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 291, 295. 

 Eos cardinalis, Bonaparte, Comp. Rend, xlix. p. 539 (1857) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. 



i. p. 249 (1880), and iii. p. 518 (1882) ; id. Cat. of Birds iii Brit. Mus. xx. p. 22. 



Almost entirely red ; tail above red ; no violet collar ; wing-coverts along the edge of the wing edged with 

 bluish purple ; scapulars not blue. 



Habitat. Solomon Islands. 



This exceptionally one-coloured but very bandsome Lory is tbe first one of the series here 

 described, and the only species of Eos, which is an inhabitant of the Solomon Islands. 

 Mr. E. P. Bamsay, in his notes on the zoology of those islands, tells us that one of their 

 principal features is the abundance of this beautiful Parrot. He found that (as in the 

 Lories hereinbefore described) the females were coloured like the males ; they were, 

 however, slightly smaller. Up to the time of Mr. Bamsay's investigation this was considered 

 a very rare bird. 



Mr. E. L. C. Layard, in his notes on a collecting-trip to the Solomon and other islands, 

 observes that this Lory frequents old niangrove-trees, and that it is a very tough-skinned bird 

 and will fly away after receiving a heavy charge of shot. 



The colour of the whole plumage is almost entirely red. The head and nape are deep 

 crimson. The breast and abdomen are of a lighter red, and each feather has its distal margin 

 of a pale yellow, so that the underparts appear undulated and traversed by narrow yellowish 

 transverse markings. The back, shoulders, and rump are brownish red. Some of the feathers 

 of the mantle, however, have narrow faintly-marked yellow margins. The upper tail-coverts 

 are red, and the under tail-coverts of a uniform crimson. 



The primaries are brown, with their outer webs reddish brown, with an olive-yellow lustre 

 in certain lights ; their inner webs are dark reddish brown. The secondaries are brownish 



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