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1. CALLIPTILUS SOLITARIUS. 



(THE SOLITARY LORY.) 



[Plate XXV.] 



Solitary Parrot, Lath. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 65 (1787). 



La Perruche Phigy, Levaill. Pen*, pi. 64 (1801). 



Psittacus solitaries, Lath. Index Om. Suppl. ii. p. xxiii (1801). 



Psittacus vaillanti, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 909 (1809). 



Psittacus coccineus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 472 (1811). 



Psittacus phigy, Bechst. Kurze TJeb. p. 81, pi. 9. fig. 2 (1811). 



Brotogeris ? phigy, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 133 (1826). 



Brotogeris coccineus, Swainson, Class. Birds, ii. p. 303 (1837). 



Phigys solitarius, G. B. Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 154, n. 8198 (1870). 



Nanocles solitarius, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 116 (1864). 



Trichoglossus coccineus, Peale, U.S. Exp. p. 129 (1848) {fide Hartl. Wiegm. Archiv, 



1852, p. 106). 

 Trichoglossus solitarius, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 659 (1877). 

 Bomicella solitaria, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 760 (1868) ; Moseley, Notes by a Naturalist on 



the ' Challenger,' p. 295 (1879). 

 Lorius phigy, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 193 (1851). 

 Lorius solitarius, Schleg. Dierent. p. 68 (1864) ; Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Centr.-Polyn. 



p. 25 (1862) ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 426 ; Bowley, Ornith. Miscell. ii. p. 38, pi. 41 



(1877). 

 Coriphilus solitarius, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 565 (1832) ; Bchmv. Vogelbild. t. xxx. 



fig. 8 (1878-83). 

 Vini coccineus, Lesson, Compl. de Buffon, ix. p. 207 (1837). 

 Calliptilus solitarius, Sundevall, Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 71 (1872); Salvadori, 



Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 326 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 42. 



Grass-green ; nape and sides of neck bright green ; hind neck, back, and underparts deep scarlet ; pileuni, 

 tibia, and abdomen violet-black. 



Habitat. Fiji Islands. 



This singularly short-tailed Lory, known since 1787, is one of those lovely Parrots which 

 inhabit the Piji Islands *. Scarcely anything is known as to its habits or mode of life. A 

 few remarks, however, may be cited from Layard and Moseley. Layard tells us that this 



* Which, are also the abode of the five beautiful species constituting the genus Pyrrliulojpsis, which, however, is 

 not a genus of Lories, hut belongs to the typical family Psittacidce. 



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