4. LORIUS JOBIENSIS. 



(THE LORY OF JOB IE.) 

 [Plate XV11I. Fig. 1.] 



Domicella lori, var. joMensis, Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxx. p. 231 



(1874). 

 Domicella joMensis, Meyer, Sitzb. Isis Dresden, 1875, p. 78. 

 Lorius cyancmchen (part.), Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 54 (1874). 

 Lorius tricolor, Ptosenberg (nee Stepb.), B\eist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 56 (1875). 

 Lorius joMensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 759 (1S75) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. 



p. 232 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 35 (1891). 



Pileum Hack with a shade of purple ; no yellow band across the crop-region ; under wing-coverts blue ; a 

 red band below the occiput ; nape dark blue ; red of the body of a rosy tint. 



Habitat. The Island of Jobie and the small island west of it called Miosnom (Miosnoem, Dutch) . 



This species was originally described by Br. Meyer as a variety of Lorius lory. It is not 

 represented in tbe British Museum, and we have to express our sincere thanks to Dr. Meyer 

 for his great kindness in sending us a specimen from tbe Museum at Dresden, that we might 

 be able to compare it with otber species of Lorius and have it drawn from nature. 

 Mr. Keulemans has done his best to give an accurate representation of it, which is the first 

 one (so far as we can ascertain) that has ever been published. 



This species (which appears to have a very restricted range) appears to represent in the 

 island of Jobie the Black-capped Lory (L. lory) of New Guinea and Salwatty. 



Tbe type of the species is preserved in the Turati collection (Museo Civico) of Milan. 



The general colour is purple and red, the wings being green and the crown of the head 

 nearly black. 



Tbe forehead and crown of the head are black, the occiput is purplish. The upper 

 breast, sides of the head (lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts), throat, sides of neck, fore neck and 

 chest, flanks, suboccipital and interscapular transverse bands, lower back, and upper tail-coverts 

 of a rather rosy red. The bind neck is dark purple and the lower breast is also dark purple, 

 and this colour is continued upwards on either side to the root of the wing. 



Tbe abdomen is bluish black, while the under tail-coverts are blue. 



The scapulars are green ; the greater, median, and upper wing-coverts are almost emerald- 

 green. The bastard-wing is purplish and the primary-coverts emerald-green. The quills 

 have their inner webs golden yellow ; their apices are black. The under wing-coverts are 

 blue in front, black further back. The axillaries are purplish black. 



