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1. HYPOCHARMOSYNA WILHELMIN£. 



(WILHELMINA'S LORY.) 

 [Plate XLVII. Figs. 1 & 2, male; Pig. 3, female.] 



Trichoglosms wilhelmince, Meyer, Journ. f. Orn. 1874, p. 56; Rchmv. Vogelbild. t. xxix. 

 fig. 4 (1878-83). 



JPsitteuteles wilhelmince, Sharpe, Gould's B. New Guin. v. pi. xix. (1876). 



Coriphilus wilhelmince, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 36 (1872) ; id. Orn. Pap. e 

 Mol. i. p. 302 (18S0) ; id. op. cit. iii. p. 519 (1882); Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxix. fig. 4 

 (1878-83) ; Sharpe on the Birds of New Guinea, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 427 

 (1882); Salvadori, Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ser. 2, xl. p. 174 (1889). 



Hypocliarmosyna wilhelmince, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 73 (1891). 



Inner web of quills red in the males. 



Habitat. New Guinea, from the Arfak Mountains to the Astrolobe range. 



This charming little Lory was first described (in 1874) by Dr. Meyer, who named it 

 wilhelmince, in compliment to his wife. That compliment the lady well deserved, as she 

 had been the constant companion of his travels, even in the Molucca Islands. 



The coloration of this Lory is as follows : — The upper parts are green generally, but the 

 lower part of the back is bright red, behind which is a patch of purple on the uropygium, 

 which passes into green on the upper tail-coverts. The crown of the head and the nape are 

 reddish brown tinged with purple, with a band of narrow bright blue feathers across the 

 occiput. The face and throat are of a bright pale green, and the same colour prevails on all 

 the underparts, save that there is a patch of narrow, elongated yellow stripes on the breast 

 (each such stripe being margined with dark green), and also a yellow spot upon each flank. 

 The quills have the inner webs red, and the axillaries and under wing-coverts are also red. 

 The under tail-coverts are light green, like the abdomen. The tail is green above. The 

 middle tail-feathers are dark green at the base, then purplish, and light green towards the 

 tip ; the bases of the lateral tail-feathers are red, they are then each marked with a transverse 

 purplish-black band, and are green towards the tip. The bill is reddish yellow, the feet grey, 

 and the iris is yellow. 



Total length 4'75 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2'25, bill 0*47, tarsus 0-4. 



The female has green instead of red (according to Dr. Meyer) on the lower back, and is 

 devoid of the yellow spot on the flanks, while the axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner 

 web of the quills are green instead of red. It is also rather smaller than the male. 



In the British Museum there are four specimens. One (collected by Goldie) has no 

 yellow streaks on the breast, while in another spscimen they are but little marked. In an 

 apparently female skin the lower back is purple, as previously remarked by Count Salvadori. 



