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tells us ; he adds : — " It is a noisy species, and with its screeching note keeps up a perpetual 

 din around the trees in which it is located. During its search for honey it creeps among the 

 leaves and smaller branches in the most extraordinary manner, hanging and clinging about 

 them in every possible variety of position. It generally associates in flocks, and is so 

 excessively tame that it is very difficult to drive it from the trees, or even from any 

 particular branch. Although usually associated in flocks, it appears to be mated in pairs, 

 which at all times keep together during flight, and settle side by side when the heat of the 

 sun prompts them to shelter themselves under the shade of the more redundantly leaved 

 branches." 



Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield state, on the authority of Mr. Caley, that its native name 

 is " Coolich." 



We learn from Mr. North that the Musky Lory resorts to the hollow branch of a 

 Casuarina or Eucalyptus tree for the purpose of breeding. " Eour eggs taken by Mr. K. H. 

 Bennett, during November 1885, are white ; three of them are oval in form and the remaining 

 one round : length (A) O-QSxO'S inch ; (B) 0-95X0-82 inch; (C) 0-9SX0-82 inch ; (D) 0"95 

 X0"85 inch. The sjiecies breeds during the months of October, November, and December." 



Three individuals of this sj>ecies have lived in the Zoological Society's Gardens. 



The back, back of the neck, uropygium, wings, and tail are dark green with some brown. 

 The vertex and part of the occiput are bluish. The forehead, lores, and ear-coverts are 

 bright red. The cheeks are more or less greenish blue. The throat, breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts are green, with a shade of yellow. There is a yellow sj)ot on the side of 

 the breast. The quills are black, broadly margined on the external web with green. The 

 under wing-coverts are yellowish green. The tail is dark green above, with a little reddish 

 orange at the tip ; the inner webs of the lateral tail-feathers are yellowish, red towards 

 the base, but tipped with green. The bill is blackish, and the feet dusky. According to 

 Gould the iris is buff, surrounded by a narrow circle of yellow. 



Total length 8-6 inches, wing 4-9, tail 35, bill - 7, tarsus 0-51. 



The female is said by Salvadori to be similar to the male, except that it has much less 

 blue on the head. 



The thirteen specimens in the British Museum vary much as to the extent of the lateral 

 yellow patch in front of the wing. 



