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1, LORIUS HYPOENOCHROUS. 



(THE PURPLE-BELLIED LORY.) 

 [Plate XVI.] 



? Psittocus lory, Lesson, Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 342 (1826). 

 Domicella hypoinochroa, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 768 (1868). 

 Domicella lnjpoenochroa, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 127 ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxxi. fig. 5 



(1878-83). 

 Lorius tricolor (part.), G. P. Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 194. 

 Lorius hypoinochrous, G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1859) ; id. Cruise Curaeoa, 



Birds, p. 380, pi. 14 (1873). 

 Lorms liypoenocliroa, Cabanis u. Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1876, p. 324, n. 73. 

 Lorius hjpoenochrous, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1S64, p. 289 ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. 



p. 221 (18S0) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 32 (1891). 



Pileum black ; no yellow band across the crop-region ; under wing-coverts red ; abdomen purple. 



Habitat. Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea near East Cape, New Ireland, New Britain, and New 

 Hanover. 



This brilliant species was met with by Macgillivray during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Battle- 

 snake ' in an island at the south-eastern end of the Louisiade Archipelago. It usually 

 appeared in small flocks passing over the tops of the trees, uttering a loud, sharp scream at 

 intervals. The birds were plentiful in tbe woods, but, owing to the difficulty of seeing them 

 among the thick foliage, few were shot *. 



Tbe JPsittacus lory of Lesson may have been a bird of this kind, and, if so, it was known 

 and noticed as early as 1826. This identity, however, is uncertain, and a male skin (taken 

 on the 30th of June, 1849) during the voyage of the ' Rattlesnake,' and which is preserved 

 in the British Museum, must be taken as the type of the species, and this has been represented 

 by our artist. 



Its general colour is crimson, but the pileum is black, tbe wings are green, having in 

 part a bronzy tinge, and the interscapular region has a transverse band of dark purple-red. 

 The red of the nape and sides of the throat is darker than that of the cheeks and flanks, and 

 is somewhat longitudinally streaked with paler red. The lower abdomen, the thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts are dark blackish purple. The quills are black or blackish towards and 

 at their apices, but the basal half of their inner web is rich yellow. The outer margins of 



* See Voyage of H.M.S. ' Eattlesnake,' vol. i. p. 211. 



