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2. VINI KUHLI. 



(KUHL'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XXVI. Fig. 2.] 



Psittacula kulilii, Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. p. 412, pi. 16 (1821); Lear's Psittacidse, pi. 38 



(1832). 

 Psittacula interfringillacea, Bourj. Perr. pi. 83 (1837-38). 

 Psittacus hulili, Lesson, Voy. Coq. i. p. 629 (1828). 

 Brotogeris Jcuhlii, Swainson, Class. B. ii. p. 303 (1837). 

 Domicella hulili, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 719 (1868). 

 Lorius huhli, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 193 (1831). 

 CoripMlus kuhlii, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. pp. 495, 566 (1832) ; Selby, Nat. Library, Orn. 



vi. p. 164, pi. 23 (1836) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 421 ; Streets, Amer. Nat. xi. p. 68 



(1877) ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. p. 13 (1877) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1883, p. 47 ; Rchnw. 



Vogelbild. t. xxi. fig. 5 (1878-83). 

 Vini coccinea, Less. 111. d. Zool. pi. xxviii. (1831). 

 Vmi Jcuhlii, G. B. Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 153, n. 8195 (1870). 

 Vini hulili, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 45 (1891). 



Forehead and vertex green, occiput dark blue. 

 Habitat. Washington and Fanning Islands. 



More tban forty years intervened between the discovery of the last-described species and that 

 of tbis second and only other known species of the genus. Much uncertainty long existed 

 as to the habitat of this species, and there was a prevailing inclination to regard the Solomon 

 Islands as its most probable home. We have to thank Dr. Streets for clearing up the mystery 

 and discovering their true abode, namely, the "Washington and Panning Islands. He 

 considers it natural that the above-mentioned mistaken opinion should have arisen, as the 

 islands which constitute its sole abode are still, he tells us, uninhabited, though natives from 

 more southerly placed groups visit them periodically to make cocoanut-oil. "We found," 

 he continues, " a party of them at Washington Island at the time of our visit, and in the 

 possession of the men were a number of the Lories that had been caught and tamed. It is 

 evident that when these men return to their homes, they carry the birds along with them, 

 and in this way they have probably fallen into the hands of collectors, who have sent them 

 to Etirope as coming from the Society Islands. When the islander wishes to take the Lories 

 alive, he provides himself with two pieces of bamboo, each about a yard long. On the end 

 of one he perches a tame bird and from the extremity of the other suspends a short running 



