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2. LORIUS LORY. 



(THE BLACK-CAPPED LORY.) 

 [Plate XVII. Fig. 1.] 



First Black-capped Lory, Edw. Birds, iv. p. 170, pi. clxx. (1751). 



Black-capped Lory, Latli. Syn. i. p. 273 (1781). 



? Black-crowned Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 213 (1781). 



The tricoloured Lory, Greene & Dutton, Parrots in Captivity, vol. iii. pi. xi. p. 19 (1887). 



Lory des Philippines, D'Aub. PI. Enl. 168. 



Lory tricolor, Bnff. Hist, Nat. Ois. vi. p. 132 (1779). 



? Grand Perruche a bandeau noir, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 158 (1779). 



Lory a scapulaire bleu, Levaill. Perr. p. 83, pis. 123, 121 (1805). 



? Psittacus orientalis exquisitus Loeri dictus, Seba, Thes. i. p. 63, pi. xxxviii. (1731). 



Psittacus lory, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 145 (1766). 



Psittacus atricapillus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 317 (1788). 



Psittacus sebanus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 459 (1812). 



Psittacus lorius, Weinl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, B, p. lxxv. 



? Ara moluccensis varia, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 197 (1760). 



Bomicella tricolor, Bchnw. Vogelbild. t. xi. fig. 2 (1878-83). 



Domicella lori, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 769 (1868). 



Bomicella lory, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. d. konig. bayer. Akad. der "Wissen. 



p. 568 (1832). 

 Lorius pMlippensis, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 225, pi. xxiii. fig. 2 (1760). 

 Lorius tricolor, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 132 (1826) ; Sclater, List Vert. An. 



8th ed. p. 318 (1803). 

 Lorius cyanauchen, Bosenh. (nee Mull.), Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 143, 225 



(1863). 

 Lorius lori, G. B.. Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 153 (1870). 

 Lorius lory, Wallace, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) iii. p. 148 (1859) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e 



Mol. i. p. 223 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 33. 



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

 dark blue. 



Habitat. North-western New Guinea and the adjacent islands, Salwatty, Batanta, Waigiou, and Mysol. 



This richly-coloured red-and-purple bird — which seems to have given its name (Lory) to all 

 the allied species — was described by Edwards in 1751, and, if we are right in supposing that 



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