2. TRICHOGLOSSUS FORSTENI. 



(FOESTEN'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XXIX.] 



Fsittacus forsteni, Ternrninck, in Mus. Lugcl. 



Psittacas {THchoglossus) forsteni, Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 66. 

 Trichoglossus immarginatus, Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. xxvii. p. 279 (1858). 

 THchoglossus forsteni, Bonaparte, Consp. At. i. p. 3 (1850) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 826 

 (1868) ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 51 (1891). 



Quills underneath with a yellow band towards the base; a greenish-yellow band on the nape ; middle of 

 the abdomen dark purple ; breast red, with no tinge of yellow towards the edges ; head not entirely 

 blue; no dark cross-bands on the breast. 



Habitat. Sumbawa. 



This species has not, we believe, been previously represented by any coloured plate. Tbere 

 is no skin in the National Collection, and it is once more only through the kindness of the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild, who has lent us a very fine skin, that we have been enabled to 

 have it depicted by our artist. 



The type of the species is, Finsch tells us, in the Ley den Museum. 



The back, wings, and tail are green, the feathers of the upperside of the neck are dark 

 grass-green, but with a greenish-yellow band more or less marked on the nape. The feathers 

 of the upper back have broad violet terminal margins, nearer the base they are more or less 

 red. The head has the forehead and lores more or less blue, with blue shaft-streaks. The 

 chin is more violet, and the vertex greenish. The throat is purplish violet. The breast is 

 bright red, without very dark transverse bands. The abdomen is dark purple ; the flanks, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts are yellow, save that the feathers have broad green margins. The 

 quills are mainly black — the first entirely so, the rest yellow at the base of the inner webs, 

 which together form a yellow oblique band on the underside of the wing, which is black 

 beyond the yellow band, while the under wing-coverts are bright red. The tail-feathers are 

 of a more or less dirty yellow beneath. Bill reddish, feet grey. 



Total length 10 inches, wing 5'3, tail 4'2, tarsus 0'61. 



