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8. LORIUS DOMICELLA. 



(THE PURPLE-NAPED LOKY.) 

 [Plate XXL] 



Second Black-capped Lory, Edwards, Birds, iv. p. 171 (1751). 



'Purple-capped Lory, Greene & Dutton, Parrots in Captivity, vol. i. pi. ix. p. 45 (1884). 



Rajah Lory, Latham, Gen. Hist. ii. p. 226 (1822). 



? Lory des Lndes Orientales, D'Aub. PL Enl. 84 (var.) (1783). 



Lory male des Lndes Orientales, D'Aub. PL Enl. 119 (1783). 



Lory a collier, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 130 (1779). 



Perroquet Lori Radhia, Levaill. Perr. ii. pi. 94 (var.), p. 39 (1801). 



Perroquet Lori a collier jaune, Levaill. Perr. ii. pi. 95, p. 40 (1801). 



Perroquet Lori a collier (var.), Levaill. Perr. ii. pi. 95 bis. 



Psittacus domicella, Linn. S. N. i. p. 145 (1766) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 535, pi. 81 



(1811) ; Halm, Orn. Atlas, Papag. t. 42, p. 58 (1831). 

 Psittacus rex, Becbst. Kurze Uebers. p. 92 (1811). 

 Psittacus raja, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 537, pi. 82 (1811). 

 Psittacus radhea, Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 337 (1817). 



Domicella domicella, Wallace, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) iii. p. 148 (1859). 

 Domicella atricapilla, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 567 (1832), in Abhandl. d. konig. bayer. 



Akad. Wissen. Bd. i. ; Einscb, Papag. ii. p. 763 (1868) ; Bchnw. Vogelbild. t. iii. 



fig. 7 (1878-83). 

 Lorius domicellus, Gulliver, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 489. 

 Lorius domicella, Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 400 (1825) ; Lear, Illustr. Parr. pi. 37 



(1832); Selby, Nat. Library, Orn. vi. p. 146, pi. 18 (1836); Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e 



Mol. i. p. 236 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 37. 



Pileum black ; a yellow band across tbe crop-region ; quills with the base of the inner web yellow. 

 Habitat. Ceram and Amboyna. 



The Purple-naped Lory has been Imown since 1751, and it received its specific designation 

 from Linnaeus in 1766. Latham (in 1822), speaking of the specimen described and figured 

 by him, says : " This bird was the property of my good patron Sir Hans Sloane, at whose 

 house I made an original drawins of it." 



Though thus familiar to ornithologists and lovers of Parrots (for it has not been rare 

 in captivity), its native home remained for a very long time unknown, and was ultimately 

 ascertained through Yfallace, Rosenberg, and Beceari. 



