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the quills are greenish. The scapulars, secondaries, and upper wing-coverts are green. The 

 under wing-coverts are crimson; but the ends of the under primary-coverts are black, 

 making a black band between the yellow and the red, as shown in our Plate. The tail is 

 also crimson above, at its basal half ; its apical half is purple tinged with greenish, but the 

 extremities of the feathers are bronzy green ; beneath, the tail is of a golden olive-yellow 

 tinge. 



The bill is orange-red, the feet blackish, and the iris is scarlet. 



Total length 11 inches, wing 6-8, tail 3 - 6, bill T05, tarsus OS. 



Of the specimens in the National Collection all, except one of the two from East Cape, 

 are devoid of the black ends of the under primary-coverts. As the two from East Cape are 

 both of the same sex, this black band cannot be a sexual character. 



Lorius hypoenochrous is the first species of the whole series hereinbefore described which 

 inhabits either New Britain, or New Ireland, or New Hanover, or the Louisiade Archipelago, 

 and is the most southerly species we have yet met with. 



