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7. LORIUS CYANAUCHEN. 



(THE LORY OF MYSORE.) 

 [Plate XX.] 



Psittacus cyanauchen, S. Miill. Verb.. Land- en Yolkenk. p. 107 (1839-1844). 

 Lomicella lori mysorensis, Meyer, Sitzb. k. Akad. Wien, lxx. p. 233 (1874). 

 Lomicella cyanauchen, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 773 (1868). 



Lorius superbus, Praser, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 16 ; id. Zoologia Typica, pi. 55 (1849). 

 Lorius speciosus, Posenb. Nat. Tijdsclir. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 144, 225, sp. 19 (1863). 

 Lorius cyanocinctus, Posenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 145 (1863). 

 Lorius cyanauchen, Souance, Ptev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 225 ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. 

 e Mol. i. p. 234 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Prit. Mus. xx. p. 36 (1891). 



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

 occiput. 



Habitat. Mysore. 



This species, which was discovered and named by S. Muller, is at once distinguisbable from 

 the five last described (L. lory, L. erythrothorax, L. jobiensis, L. rubiensis, and L. salvadori) 

 by its not having a suboccipital transverse band of red, from L. hypoenochrous by baving 

 blue under wing-coverts, and from the remaining species by having the pileum black and 

 no yellow band across the crop-region. 



Por a long time the precise habitat of L. cyanauchen remained undetermined and it 

 was supposed to be a native of one or other of the islands of Geelvink Bay. The first 

 indication of its true abode is due to Dr. Wallace, and this indication was confirmed bv 

 Dr. Meyer. So far as is yet known it has a very restricted range. 



It may be said to represent in Mysore the L. lory of New Guinea and the L. jobiensis 

 of the island of Jobie. 



The type of the species, Dr. Pinsch tells us, is preserved in the Leyden Museum. 



It greatly resembles L. jobiensis save, as before said, for the absence of the collar 

 separating the black pileum from the purple nape. 



Its coloration is as follows : — Crown of the head, larger under wing-coverts, and apices 

 of the primaries on their under surface black; cheeks, ear-coverts, throat, upper breast, 

 a band across the scapular region, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts red ; nape, belly, vent, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts blue. Wings and scapulars green externally : the apices of 

 the qiulls bluish black. Primaries with the inner web near the base and for some distance 

 golden yellow. The under surface of the open wing is very bright, the lesser wing-coverts 



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