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4. TRICHOGLOSSUS N I GRO GU L AR I S. 



(THE DARK-THROATED LORY.) 

 [Plate XXX. Fig. 2.] 



Trichoglossus cyanogrammus (part.), Wallace, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 291 ; Finsch, Papag. ii. 

 p. 830 (partira) (186S). 



Trichoglossus hcematotus (part.), ScMeg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 336 (partira). 



Trichoglossus nigrogularis, G. P. Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 103, 195 ; Salvadori, Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 35, n. 80 (1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878. p. 93 ; D'Albertis & Salvadori, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv. p. 10 (1879) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 292 

 (1880) ; id. ' Challenger ' Birds, p. 75, pi. xx. (1881) ; id. Mem. P. Acad. Sc. Tor. 

 series 2, xl. p. 172 (1889) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 55. 



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

 abdomen blackish green ; head-feathers red, tinged with yellow towards the edges ; forehead and 

 cheeks blue. 



Habitat. Aru Islands, Southern New Guinea (along the middle part of the Fly River), and Ke Islands. 



Our Plate represents a type of this species which is preserved in the British Museum, and 

 came from the Wallace collection. 



T nigrogularis appears to represent in the Ke Islands T. cyanogrammus, which, in spite 

 of its wide distribution, has not been found there up to the present time, so far as we can 

 ascertain. 



The Dark-throated Lory is, as our Plate shows, exceedingly like T. cyanogrammus, but 

 the occiput is slightly less purple. The red of the breast is also less deep, and the dark 

 transverse bands which traverse it are much narrower. The breast-feathers have a yellow or 

 orange tinge near their dark edges. The middle of the abdomen is also darker — a blackish 

 green. The under wing-coverts are red. 



The total length is 11 inches, wing 6, tail 5*5, bill 0'9, tarsus 0'65. 



Salvadori (in his ' Birds of the Challenger ') says : — " Eyes red, bill red, legs slate-colour. 

 Stomach contained small seeds. Shot at Wokan." 



He also, in his ' Papuan Ornithology ' (Orn. Pap. e Mol.), says that specimens from the 

 Ke Islands do not differ sensibly from those of the Aru Islands and of New Guinea, except 

 in being a little larger ; that from Ke had the beautiful blue stripes of the head becoinina; 

 greenish towards their ends. 



The specimens in the British Museum are very much alike, and we find very 

 little difference between the colour of the occiput in them and in various specimens of 

 T. cyanogrammus. 



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