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14. TRICHOGLOSSUS ORNATUS. 



(THE ORNATE LORY.) 

 [Plate XXXIX.] 



Avis paradisiaca orientalis elegantissima, Seba, Mus. t. 60. figs. 2, 3 (1734). 



The Lory Parrakeet, Edwards, Birds, iv. pi. 174 (1751). 



Psittacibs minor e coccineo viridis, id. op. cit. p. 247. 



La Perruche variee des Lides Orientates, D'Aubent. PL Enl. 552. 



La Perruche Lori, Levaill. Perr. pi. 52 (1801). 



Psittaca inclica varia, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 366 (1760). 



Psittacus ornatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 143, n. 19 (1766). 



Psittacus inquinatus, Miiller, S. N. Suppl. p. 79 (1776). 



Psittacus {Trichoglossus) ornatus, Miiller & Scbleg. Verb. Land- en Volkenk. p. 472 



(1839-44). 

 Australasia malaisue, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 210 (1831). 

 Eos ornata, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 562 (1832). 

 Lorius ornatus, Stephens in Sbaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 132 (1826). 

 Trichoglossus ornatus, G. B/. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 411, n. 6 (1846) ; Finsck, Papag. ii. 



p. 842 (1868); Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 32 (1872); Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 



pp. 53, 145; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 299 (1880); Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. viii. 



fig. 7 (1878-83) ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 61 (1891). 



Quills with no coloured-band beneath. ; cheeks and breast red. 

 Habitat. Celebes, Buton, and the Togian Islands. 



De. Meyee tells us tbat the native name of tbis species " among tbe Alfuros of Minabassa 

 is ' Kerut ' ; besides, every one calls it ' Parkitji,' wbicb is, I believe, a Dutcb word." 



It is " tbe most common Parrot of Celebes ; I got it at all times and everywhere in tbe 

 Minabassa from January till July ; at tbe end of March 1871 it suddenly appeared in large 

 flocks near Limbotto in August ; near Gorontalo in September ; on the Togian Islands in 

 August ; and in South Celebes in October and November. They live in flocks and fly very 

 quickly, with much noise and quick strokes of the wings ; tbey have a short and shrill cry, 

 and do not sit quiet a long time at one spot, but climb all over the tree. At midday, in the 

 heat, they sit in flocks in the shadow of the leaves, chattering and scratching each other's 

 beads. In cool weather they are on the wing nearly the whole day. 



" On the 27th of February I found a female, with an egg ready to be laid ; it was quite 

 white, 25 millim. long, 17 milhm. broad. 



