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10. LORIUS TIBIALIS. 



(THE BLUE-THIGH ED LORY.) 

 [Plate XXIII.] 



Domicella tibialis, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 170 ; id. Vogelbild. t. xxxi. fig. 7 



(1878-83). 

 Lorius tibialis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 499, 541, pi. xli. ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 788 



(head showing tongue) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 240 (1880) ; Sharpe, 



Gould's Birds of N. Guinea, vol. v. pi. 37 (1888); Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. 



xs. p. 39. 



Pileum red; a more or less distinct yellow band across the crop-region ; under wing-coverts light blue ; 

 tibiae dark blue ; quills with the base of the inner web yellow. 



Habitat. Unknown, probably from one of the Molucca Islands. 



This beautiful species was first described by Br. Sclater from a specimen then living in the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society, which had been purchased by the late Mr. Jamrach in 

 Calcutta. 



In our survey of the species of the genus Lorius this is the first which has neither a 

 black nor a purple cap, but a head that is red above, like the body generally. 



The general colour above is bright red, the scapulars being red like the back. The 

 top and sides of the head, the ujoper throat, nape, back, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts 

 are red, also the breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; but the under surface of 

 the lower throat is mottled with yellow, forming the transverse band across the crop-region. 

 The thighs are lilac-blue. The wing-coverts are grass-green, the lesser coverts have a little 

 crimson and lilac, and the lilac colour extends along the bend of the wing. The inner, 

 greater, and the median coverts have a subterminal mark of dark crimson. The bastard 

 wing is grass-green, with bluish at the ends of the feathers. The primary-coverts are grass- 

 green and somewhat blackish internally ; more than the basal half is yellow, and the basal 

 parts are tinged with red. The innermost secondaries are, like the greater coverts, tinged 

 near the ends with dark crimson. The under wing-coverts and axillaries are lilac-blue 

 (somewhat duller in tint than the thighs), but they are tinged with red on the edge of the 

 wing. The apices of the under primary-coverts are black. The quills on their under surface 

 are black with a large yellow basal patch. 



The tail is bright red above, with a purplish-brown band across its distal portion ; 

 beneath it is of a golden-olive tint. 



The bill is orange, the feet pale flesh-colour, the skin round the eye and cere dark purplish. 



Total length 11*5 inches, wing 6 - 6, tail 3 - 75, tarsus - 7. 



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