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3. PSITTEUTELES EUTELES. 



(THE PLAIN LORY.) 

 [Plate XLIL] 



La Perruche eutele, Bouvjot, Perr. pi. 43 (1837-38). 



Perruche irisfemelle, Bourjot, Perr. pi. 41 b, female (1837-38). 



Conurus euteles, Bourjot, Perr. pi. 43, male (1837-38). 



Conurus iris, Bourjot, Perr. pi. 41 b. 



Psittacus euteles, Temrn. PL Col. 568 (1835). 



Psittacus [Belocercus) euteles, Roseub. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 66. 



Psittacus (Trichoglossus) euteles, S. Mull. & Schleg. Verhand. Laud- eu Volkenk. p. 472 



(1839-1844). 

 Nanodes euteles, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 112 (1861); id. op. cit. Revue, p. 50 



(1S74). 

 Neopsittacus euteles, Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Oru. 1884, pp. 195, 196. 

 Corlphilus euteles, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 417 (1845). 

 Trichoglossus ochreocephalus, Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. xxvii. p. 279 (1858). 

 Trichoglossus euteles, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 226; Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 850 (1868); 



Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxx. fig. 5 (1878-83). 

 Psitteuteles euteles, Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Salvadori, Cat. of 



Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 64 (1891). 

 Psitteuteles weberi, Biittikofer in Dr. Max Weber's Zoologisebe Ergebnisse einer Reise in 



Niederlandisck Ost-Indien, Band iii. p. 290, pi. xvii. fig. 1 (1894). 



A yellow band on the underside of the quills. 



Habitat. Timor, Flores, Wetter, Lettie, Babbar, and Timor-laut. 



The type of tbe species is in the Museum of Leyden. 



The colour of all tbe upper parts is uniform grass-green. Tbe bead is yellowish olive. 

 Tbe breast and abdomen are yellowish green, tbe featbers baving green margins which form 

 more or less distinct transverse bands. Tbe flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts are 

 similarly yellowisb green, as are also the under wing-coverts. The quills are blackish 

 beneath, save that their inner Avebs are yellow towards tbe base. The inner webs of the tail- 

 feathers are yellowisb green beneatb. Tbe bill is yellowisb and tbe feet grey. 



Total length 10*5 incbes, wing 53, tail 4 - 2, bill - 65, tarsus 0-54. 



Tbe young are said by Salvadori to have the bead greener and less contrasted with tbe 

 green of the body, and be also affirms that specimens from Mores are darker, that they 



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