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3. LORIUS ERYTHROTHORAX. 



(THE RED-BREASTED LORY.) 

 [Plate XVII. Fig. 2.] 



Domicella lory (part.), Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wissenscb. Wien, lxx. p. 227 (Rubi) (1874). 



Domicella erythrothorax, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 173. 



Lorius hypoenochrous, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vol. iii. p. 251 (1878). 



Lorius hypoenochrous, var., Ramsay, 1. c. p. 72. 



Lorius guglielmi, Ramsay, 1. c. p. 73. 



Lorius hypoenochrous, var. guglielmi, Ramsay, 1. c. p. 106. 



Lorius lory, Salvadori & D'Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. p. 812 (1877). 



Lorius erythrothorax, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 32, n. 57 (1877) ; D'Albertis 

 & Salvadori, Uccelli della Nuova Guinea, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 39 (1879); 

 Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Hoi. i. p. 230 (1880), & iii. p. 518 (1882); Pinscb & Meyer, 

 Zeitscb. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 5 ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 35. 



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

 red. 



Habitat. New Guinea, from Port Moresby, through Fly River region to south of Geelvink Bay. 



This species very closely resembles tbat last described, save tbat tbe breast is red instead of 

 blue. 



Dr. Meyer obtained specimens from tbe district of Rubie, tbat is from near tbe southern 

 boundary of Geelvink Bay. Individuals were there very plentiful ; he took twenty- 

 three skins, and had be not given orders that more were not to be shot, he could soon have 

 possessed himself of a hundred. 



According to D'Albertis and Salvadori seven mature specimens (3 males and 1 females) 

 were alike in colour, save that the interscapular region was more or less red in one or two 

 specimens, while in another the blackish-blue patch of the hind neck was continued 

 anteriorly on either side. 



The head and occiput are black, and the cheeks and upper throat and chest red, as in 

 L. lory, while a narrow red band also divides the posterior margin of the black cap from the 

 upper margin of the dark patch on the hinder neck. A second narrow transverse red band 

 traverses the mantle. The whole of the chest (as before said), part of the abdomen, the 

 flanks, the lower back, the uropygium, and the upper tail-coverts are also red. The hind 

 neck and interscapular region (save for the transverse red baud) are dark purple. Tbe lower 

 breast and abdomen are also deep purple, and the thighs and under tail-coverts violet-blue. 



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