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PSITTEUTELES. 



GREEN-HEADED LORIES. 



Psitteuteles, Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 157. 



Type of the genus : P. euteles. 



Generic characters. — Tail-feathers twelve ; point of maxilla long but not thin ; tail moderate, its feathers 

 gradually tapering to a point more or less acute, predominant colour underneath, as well as above, 

 green ; tail-feathers with no yellow or red colour at the tip ; the two middle tail-feathers not very 

 long ; the first four or five primaries not distinctly attenuated towards the tips ; no blue shaft-streaks 

 on the forehead ; no red colour on the breast ; head yellowish or bluish green ; bill orange-red. 

 (Cf. Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. /. c.) 



Range. From the Sula Islands and Celebes to Western and Southern Australia, and from Mores to 

 Timor-laut. 



The species of this genus greatly resemble the Triclioglossi, but they differ in their tints as 

 above stated and are very prominently green. 



The present genus, like the last, extends into Australia from Rockingham Bay through 

 the interior to South Australia, but not, we believe, into Tasmania, and it appears to be 

 entirely absent from New Guinea. It is, like Trichoglossus, found in Celebes, and these are 

 the only two genera of Lories found in that interesting island. It is absent from Sumbawa 

 (which Trichoglossus forsteni inhabits), but is found in Elores and Timor and thence to 

 Timor-laut, which last habitat is its nearest approach to New Guinea. Thus, with the 

 exception of the extremes of distribution of these two genera (Celebes and Australia), the 

 range of the one is singularly different from that of the other. 



Psitteuteles does not extend eastwards beyond Australia, while Elores is its western 

 limit. 



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