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distinguished therefrom hy its having the inner web of the primaries red instead of yellow, 

 the apical half of the tail green, and a black patch on each side of the neck. 



The general colour of the body is a rather scarlet-red, but the wings are green, the 

 pileum black, and there is a conspicuous wide yellow band across the crop-region. The 

 top of the head, forehead, and occiput are black. The upper throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, and 

 nape are red. The lower throat is rich yellow in the form of a transverse band — as just 

 mentioned — of that colour antero-posteriorly, broad in the middle, and tapering as it ascends 

 on either side, while just in front of its upper end, at the side of the neck, is a dorso-ventrally 

 elongated patch of black, which is separated from the black on the occiput by a band of red, 

 which passes from the ear-coverts to the nape. The back, uropygium, upper tail-coverts, 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts are scarlet-red. The wings, including the scapulars, 

 are green, the wing-coverts being yellowish green. The primaries and secondaries are dark 

 grass-green ; their inner webs are dull black, save the basal portion of each, which is scarlet- 

 red. The bend of the wing is light blue or bluish white. The under wing-coverts are blue, 

 but the tips of the under coverts of the primaries are black, so forming a more or less 

 marked black band between the blue and the red of the under surface of the wing. The 

 tibia? are blue. The tail is scarlet-red at its basal half, the remainder grass-green. Below 

 the tail is golden orange. 



The bill is orange-red, the feet blackish brown. The iris is bright red or pale orange. 

 The skin round the eye and the cere are purplish. 



Total length 11 inches, wing 6'7, tail 3-9, bill 0"95, tarsus 072. 



This species has the most eastern habitat of the whole genus, and is the only typical Lory 

 found in the Solomon Islands. 



