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12. EOS FUSCATA. 



(THE DUSKY LORY.) 

 [Plate XV.] 



Chalcopsitta fuscata, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 153, n. 8194 (1870). 



Chalcopsitta leucopygialis, Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 144, 224 (1863). 



Chalcopsittacus /meatus, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. viii. p. 397 (1876). 



Lorius fuscatus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, p. 122 (1864). 



Domicella fuscata, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 807, t. 6 (1868) ; Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, lxx. p. 236 (1874) ; Rcknw. Vogelbild. t. xxxi. fig. 9 (1878-83). 

 Eos (Chalcopsitta) torricla, G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 102 (1859). 

 Eos leucopygialis, Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 64. 

 Eos inconclita, Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 6, Taf . i. fig. 2 ; Salvadori, Mem. 



R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xl. p. 169 (1889). 

 Eos fuscata, Blytb, Journ. A. S. B. xxvii. p. 279 (1885) ; Sbarpe, Gould's B. New Guin. 



vol. v. pi. 34 (1886) ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 760 (1875), x. p. 34, 



n. 72, p. 122 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 263 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. 



Mus. xx. p. 30 (1891). 



Dusky, mingled with red or yellow ; uropygium whitish grey, with more or less of a yellow tinge. 

 Habitat. New Guinea, Johie, Salwatty. 



This Lory is at once readily distinguishable from all other species of the genus Eos by its 

 conspicuous white uropygium. Its general coloration is also very different from that of 

 the other eleven species. One other character is more noteworthy still, for it appears possible 

 that it may be a dimorphic bird, there being some in which the breast is very red and others 

 in which it is light yellow, and it is not yet established that this is due to age. 



Although there is a certain amount of dusky colour about it, yet E. fuscata must be 

 esteemed a rather brilliant species. The forehead, sides of the head, and occiput are dusky 

 brownish black (there may be a shade of green in some lights), while the vertex is reddish 

 orange, extending from eye to eye, and the same colour reappears (more or less) on the nape. 

 There is a transverse band across the throat and another lower one across the breast, both 

 of which may be red or bright yellow, according to the variety the individual may belong to, 

 or, possibly, its age. The middle of the lower breast and abdomen are likewise either bright 

 yellow or red, which latter colour is also that of the tibiae. The feathers of the hind neck, of 

 the interscapular region, and of the throat (both above and below the upper transverse band 

 of red or yellow) are edged with greyish or reddish — sometimes even with olive. The lower 



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