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10. EOS RICINIATA. 



(THE VIOLET-NECKED LORY.) 

 [Plate XIII.] 



Variegated Lory, Latli. Synop. i. p. 220, n. 22 (1781). 



? Gueby Lory, Lath. Synop. i. p. 219, n. 21 (1781). 



Cochinchina Parrot, Lath. Synop. Suppl. i. p. 65, n. 143 (1787) [bad description]. 



Gueby Lory, var. A, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 134 (1822). 



? Le petit Lori de Gueby, Sonnerat, Voy. a la Novj.v. Guin. p. 174, pi. 109 (1776). 



Peruche a chaperon bleu, Levaill. Perr.pl. 54 (1801). 



Psittacus guenbiensis, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. p. 87, n. 28 (1786) (ex Sonnerat). 



Psittacus guebiensis (part.), Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 318, n. 60 (1788). 



Psittacus guebuensis (part.), Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1830 (1823). 



Psittacus variegatus, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 319, n. 62 (ex Latham) (1788). 



Psittacus cochinsinensis, Lath. Index Orn. i. p. 116, n. 103 (1790). 



Psittacus riciniatus, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 69, pi. 4 (1811). 



Psittacus cochinchinensis, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 94 (1811). 



Psittacus cucullatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 461 (1S11). 



Lorius cucullatus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 132 (1826). 



Lorius isidorii, Swainson, Zool. 111. series 2, vol. i. pi. 8 (1829). 



Lorius riciniatus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 125 (1864). 



Lorius ricinatus, Rosenb. Heist, naar Geelvinkb. p. 6 (1875). 



Lomicella riciniata (part.), Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 803 (1868) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxxi. 



fig. 3 (1878-83). 

 Los variegata, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 560 (1832). 

 Eos cochinchinensis, Wagl. loc. cit. (1832). 

 Eos cochinsinensis, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 417, n. 4 (1845). 

 Eos isidorii, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 417, n. 6 (1845). 

 Eos indica (var.), G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1859). 

 Los ricinata, Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 62. 

 Eos riciniata, Bonaparte, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 24; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 259 



(1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 28. 



R,ed, including upper surface of tail ; a purple collar ; hind neck and occiput also purple. 



Habitat. The Halmahera group — Halmahera, Teinate, Motir, Tidore, Batchian, Morty, Moor, Dammar, 

 Makian, and Obi Islands. 



