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1. PTILOSCLERA VERSICOLOR. 



(THE GREY-FOOTED LORY.) 

 [Plate XLIV.] 



Le Lori versicolor, Conurus lori scintillatus, Bourjot, Perr. pi. 52 (1837-38). 



Nanodes versicolor, Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 115 (1861). 



Neopsittacus versicolor, Salvador! Orn. Pap. e M ol. iii. p. 519 (1882). 



Goriphilus versicolor, G. P. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 59 (1859). 



Trichoglosse versicolor, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 21 bis, fig. 1 (1845). 



Trichoglossus versicolor, Vigors in Lear's 111. Parr. pi. 36 (1832) ; Selby, Nat. Library, 



vi. p. 157, pi. 21 (1836); Gould, B. Australia, v. pi. 51 (1842); Pinsch, Papag. ii. 



p. 853 (1868) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxx. fig. 4 (1883). 

 Psitteuteles versicolor, Bonaparte, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157. 

 Trichoglossus {Ptilosclera) versicolor, B,amsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 195 (1878). 

 Ptilosclera versicolor, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 98 (1S65) ; Salvadori, Cat. of Birds 



in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 66 (1891). 



Green, with yellow streaks nearly all over the body; crown and lores red. 

 Habitat. Northern and Western Australia. 



As to the babits of tbis species, Mr. Gould quotes Mr. Gilbert as follows : — " This bird 

 congregates at times in immense flocks; when a flock is on the wing their movements are so 

 regular and simultaneous that they might easily be mistaken for a cloud passing rapidly 

 along, were it not for the utterance of their usual piercing scream, which is frequently so 

 loud as to be almost deafening. They feed on the topmost branches of the Eucalypti 

 and Melaleucas. I observed them to be extremely abundant during the month of August 

 on all the small islands in Van Piemen's Gulf." 



The light-coloured shaft-streaks, which are so widely distributed over both the upper and 

 under surface of the body of this species, readily serve to distinguish it from all allied forms, 

 though they recall to mind the markings of that very different species Clialcopsittacv.s 

 scintillatus. 



The general colour of the bird is green, with yellow-green longitudinal shaft-streaks, 

 which are somewhat yellower on the underside of the body than on the back. The wings 

 and tail are, above, mainly of a darker green, but there are yellow shaft-streaks on the upper 

 wing-coverts, but not on the upper tail-coverts. The head is red, as also are the lores. The 

 ear-coverts and a narrow transverse band across the occiput are yellowish green ; this band 

 borders the posterior margin of the red on the head. Behind this there is a broad bluish 



