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5. TRICHOGLOSSUS MASSENA. 



(MAS SENA'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XXXI. Fig. 1.] 



Trichoglossus deplancliei, Verreaux et Des Mars, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860, p. 388. 



Trichoglossus hcematotus (part.), Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, Revue, p. 43 (1874). 



Trichoglossus massena, Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Pinsch, Papag. 

 ii. p. 834 (1868) ; Wallace, P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 292, 295 ; G. R. Gray, Brenchley's Cruise 

 of the ' Cvu-acoa,' p. 382, pi. xv. (1873) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1876, p. 263 ; Sharpe, Joum. 

 Linn. Soc, Zool. xiii. pp. 80, 309 (1877), p. 491 (1878), xiv. p. 586 (1879) ; Layai-d, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 274 ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 288 (1880) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. 

 t. viii. fig. 2 (1878-83) ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 53 (1891). 



Quills underneath with, a yellow band towards the base ; a greenish-yellow band on the nape; head partly 

 blue ; breast red, crossed by narrow dark bands, its feathers with no tinge of yellow towards the 

 edges ; upper parts grass-green ; abdomen green. 



Habitat. New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, and Duke of York Island, Solomon Islands, New 

 Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Loyalty Islands. 



Ct this fine Lory, which has a somewhat widely-extended range, a specimen was obtained 

 during the cruise of H.M.S. ' Curacoa,' at San Cristoval. Prom collections made in the New 

 Hebrides, Canon Tristram, P.R.S., reports that a pair formed part of a collection from 

 Aneiteum, where the bird is known to the natives as " Kula." Of those collected by 

 Messrs. E. L. and E. L. C. Layard we read (Ibis, 1878, p. 274): — "These Parrakeets are 

 common on Vate, but difficult to procure on account of their wildness. They frequent the 

 pawpau trees, devouring the fruit. On the little island of ' Nguna,' adjoining Yate, I found 

 them on the cocoanut-trees. The Erythrina was not in flower at this season. They usually 

 fly in small flocks, probably the members of one family. They feed very silently ; and the 

 first notice one usually has of their presence is the piercing scream they emit when they 

 dart off from a tree to convey themselves to a safer locality." Nothing is recorded as 

 having been observed in the stomach of the specimens obtained in the cruise of the 

 ' Curacoa ' except honey. 



Br. Meyer tells us that they are regularly to be found when trees are shedding their 

 leaves and fresh leaf-buds are appearing, but they are very shy and timid. 



The typical specimen of Verreaux's T. cleplanchei is in the Ley den Museum. 



The forehead and lores are blue, the vertex and ear-coverts greenish. The occiput is 

 brownish. There is a very decided greenish-yellow collar on the nape. The upper parts 



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