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11. TRICHOGLOSSUS VERREAUXIUS. 



(VERREAUX'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XXXVI.] 



Trichoglossus verreauccius, Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 157, n. 352 ; 



Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 59 (note) (1891). 

 Triclioglossus verreauxi, Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1856 ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 816 (1868). 



Quills underneath with a yellow band towards the base ; middle of the abdomen red, with transverse light 

 green bands ; occiput blue ; forehead and eyebrows red ; under wing-coverts red, with more or less 

 green ; a rather faintly marked collar on the neck. 



Habitat. Australia? 



The species named after Verreaux is founded upon a single specimen, described by Bonaparte, 

 which is preserved in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. This precious type has 

 been most kindly lent to us by Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards and by M. Emile Oustalet 

 in order that we might be able to examine and figure it. It is represented in figure 1 of our 

 Plate, which is the first representation of it, so far as we know, which has ever been published. 



There is in the British Museum the skin of an adult bird which came from Melbourne 

 and formed part of the Gould collection. Dr. Finsch has examined this specimen and 

 labelled it T. verreauccius. Its coloration is not altogether symmetrical, and Count 

 Salvadori, after some consideration, arrived at the conclusion that it was a hybrid between 

 T. novce-liollandice and Glossopsittacus eoncinnus. 



This British Museum skin we have also figured (Plate XXXVI. fig. 2), as we deem 

 it a very interesting one. Its resemblance to the Paris specimen is undeniable. The great 

 difference is in the colour of the breast, but it is not uncommon for a Parrot to become 

 less red and more yellow in that region. We will describe first the type of the species 

 T. verreauxius, and will afterwards point out the points in which the British Museum skin 

 differs from it. 



The general colour above is green, but there are yellow spots in the interscapular region 

 due to the yellow colour of the base of the feathers. The forehead and vertex are red, 

 the occiput and nape blue, also the lores, sides of the face, and ear-coverts. The chin is also 

 bluish. The eyebrow is red, and a very narrow band of red extends between the blue of the 

 occiput and of the ear-coverts. There is a faintly-marked light green collar between the 

 blue of the nape and the dark green of the back of the neck. The lower throat is red 

 with a little yellow. The fore neck and breast are orange-yellow, with transverse bands of 

 pale vermilion and bands of green formed by the tinted feather-tips. The abdomen 



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