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11. LORIUS GARRULUS. 



(THE CHATTERING LORY.) 

 [Plate XXIV. Fig. 1.] 



The Scarlet Lory, Edw. Birds, iv. p. 172 (var.), pi. 172 (1751). 



Ceram Lory, Lath. Syn. i. p. 269, no. 76 (1781). 



Ceram Lory, variety A (Noira Lory), id. 1. c. p. 270. 



Ceram Lory, variety B (Scarlet Lory), id. 1. c. 



The Chattering Lory, Greene & Dutton, Parrots in Captivity, vol. iv. p. 1, pi. i. (1888). 



Lory des Moluques, D'Aub. PL Enl. 216. 



Lory-noira, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois. xi. p. 127 (1779). 



Variete L. du Noira, Buff. ibid. p. 129. 



Variete IT. du Noira, Buff. 1. c. 



Lory Nouara, Levaill. Perr. ii. pi. 96 (1801). 



Psittacus garrulus, Linn. Mus. Adolp. Erid. ii. p. 14 (1764). 



Psittacus garrulus, var. (3. Psittacus aurora, Linn. S. N. i. p. 144 (1766). 



Psittacus Noira, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1378 (1823). 



Ptomicella garrula, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 570 (1832) ; Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 77 ; 



Bchnw. Vogelbild. t. iii. fig. 5 (1878-83). 

 Lorius ceramensis, Brisson, Orn. iv. (var.) p. 215 (1760). 

 Lorius moluccensis, Brisson, ibid. p. 219, t. xxiii. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Lorius garrulus, Stepb. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 132 (1826) ; Swainson, Zool. Illust. 



vol. i. 2nd series, p. 12 (var.) (1829) ; Weinland in Journ. f. Orn. 1854, B. p. lxxi, tab. ii. 



figs. 1-9 (tongue) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 241 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in 



Brit. Mus. xs. p. 39. 



Pileum red; under wing-coverts yellow; interscapular region red, but often with a few yellow feathers ; 

 quills with the base of the inner web red. 



Habitat. Halmahera. 



This bird is very like L. tibialis, but differs from it in having the under wing-coverts yellow 

 instead of blue, and in not having yellow markings across the crop-region. 



The species has been known for nearly a century and a half, and is not uncommon in 

 captivity. Edwards, its first describer, naively tells us that his bird " was the property of 

 Lord Duncannon, who gave me liberty to make a draught of it at his house in Cavendish 

 Square." 



Why it has received the appellation of " Chattering Lory " is by no means clear, for it 



