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8. TRICHOGLOSSUS MITCHELL I. 



(MITCHELL'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XXXIIL] 



Trichoglossus mitchelli, G. B. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 62 (1859) ; Finsch, Papag. 

 ii. p. 838 (1868) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 499, pi. xli. ; Salvadori, Ihis, 1871, p. 372 ; 

 id. Cat, of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 57 (1891). 



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

 feathers slightly tinged with yellow towards their edges ; hardly any blue on forehead and cheeks ; 

 abdomen green. 



Habitat. Unknown. 



The skin which is the type of this species is now in the British Museum, and has been 

 represented in our Plate. A specimen was living in the Zoological Gardens of London 

 in 1871, and another in the Gardens at Amsterdam in 1880. 



There are two skins in the British Museum, but both are females, and the male is 

 unknown. The sexes, bowever, do not differ in this genus, as has been before remarked. 



The back, wings, and tail are grass-green, with a yellow-green band across the nape. 

 The head is brown with a shade of purple, the vertex and cheeks having a tinge of green. 

 The interscapular feathers have concealed red spots. The breast is red, with orange towards 

 the tip of the featbers, which are more or less faintly edged with green. The abdomen is 

 green, tinged with dark purplish brown. The under tail-coverts are green and yellow, the 

 feathers being yellow at the base. The thighs are yellow. The quills are dusky black 

 beyond the broad yellow band and the red under wing-coverts. The tail is yellowish green 

 underneath, and its feathers are edged with yellow. The bill is reddish, the feet dark grey, 

 and the iris red. 



Total length 9 inches, wing 5'2, tail 3"5, bill 0"7, tarsus 0'51. 



