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7. EOS SEMILARVATA. 



(THE BLUE-CHEEKED LORY.) 

 [Plate X.] 



Lorius semilarvatus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaei, p. 124 (1864). 



Domicella semilarva, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 794 (186S). 



Eos semilarvata, Bonaparte, Consj). i. p. 4 (1850) ; id. Compt. Bead. xxx. p. 135 (1850) ; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1850, p. 27, pi. xv. ; Schleg. Dierent. p. 18, with figure (1864) ; Salvadori, 

 Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 250 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 25. 



General colour red; no violet collar; vent, scapulars, a band through the subocular region, and a spot on 

 the vent blue. 



Habitat. Unknown. Timor-laut ? 



This Blue-cheeked Lory was first described (1850) by Prince Lucien Bonaparte. No specimen 

 of this bird exists in our National Collection. There is a young one in the Darmstadt 

 Museum and an adult skin at Leyden, which was most generously presented to that Museum 

 by Mr. "Westermann. Heer Biittikofer of Leyden (Conservator to its Museum of Natural 

 History) has been so extremely kind as to have a coloured figure of the specimen there 

 preserved drawn for us, under his careful inspection, and this has been copied by our artist 

 on Plate X. ; it represents the type of the species. 



The Blue-cheeked Lory was never met with by Dr. Wallace in his extensive and successful 

 explorations, but he suspected that its home was in Timor-laut ; this, however, Count 

 Salvadori considers to be doubtful, because E. reticulata is an inhabitant of that island. 



Eos semilarvata has a certain resemblance to the species last described on account of its 

 general red coloration and the blue patch on the scapulars, but that patch is smaller and of a 

 paler blue, while there is a conspicuous blue patch below the eye. The last-mentioned 

 character reminds us of E. cyanogenys and E. reticulata ; but in them the subocular, or 

 circumocular, patch is of a deeper blue, while the absence of the black shoulders distinguishes 

 it from the former species, and the non-existence of blue in the interscapular region 

 differentiates it from E. reticulata. 



The entire body — from the head to the uropygiuni and upper tail-coverts, and from the 

 throat to the ^^nder tail-coverts, and also the thigh — is red ; but there is a band of blue on 

 each cheek extending from the base of the lower mandible to, and including, the ear-coverts. 

 The wings are red; the primaries, however, and their coverts are black, save their inner 

 webs, which are also red ; the secondaries are red with black tips, and the und^r wing-coverts 

 and under surface of the wing are red, save for the marginal black border formed by the black 



