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2. HYPOCHARMOSYNA PLACENS. 



(THE PLEASING LORY.) 

 [Plate XLVIII. Fig. 1, male ; Fig. 2, female.] 



Psittacus placentis, Ternm. PL Col. 553 (1835). 



Psittacus {Trichoglossus) placentis, S. Mull. Verh. Land- eu Volkenk. p. 472 (1839-44). 



Conurus placens, Bourjot, Perr. pi. 46 (1837-38). 



Coriphilus placentis, G. B. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 417 (1845). 



Ooriphilm placens, Schlegel, Dierent. p. 78 (1864) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 303 



(1880) ; Blasius, Birds of Ceram, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 702. 

 Nanodes placens, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, p. 113 (1864). 

 Psitteuteles placens, Bonaparte, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Sharpe, Gould's B. 



of New Guinea, vol. v. pi. xx. (1876). 

 Psitteuteles placentis, G. B. Gray, Hand-list, ii. p. 157 (1870). 

 Trichoglossus placens, Sclater, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 164 (1858) ; Pinscli, Papag. 



ii. p. 872 (1868) ; Bchnw. Yogelbild. t. xxix. fig. 9 (1878-83). 

 ? Trichoglossus versicolor, Wallace, Ibis, 1861, p. 284 (Ceram). 

 Trichoglossus placentis, Bosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, pp. 61, 62, 65, 67. 

 Charmosyna placentis, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 292, 295. 

 Charmosyna (?) placens, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 760 (1875). 

 Charmosyna, sp., D'Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 9 (1877). 

 Hypocharmosyna placens, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 74 (1891). 



No red, but a yellow band, on the inner web of the quills ; cheeks and throat red in the males ; no red 

 patch on the upper tail-coverts; wing blue. 



Habitat, New Guinea, Salwatty, Waigiou, Guebe, Mysol, Aru, and Ke Islands, Khoor, Poulo-Padjang, 

 Gordon, Ceram, Amboyna, Amblau, Bouru (?), Halmahera, Batchian, Ternate. 



This handsome and very variously coloured bird has a most extensive range. Prof. Schlegel 

 says that it is found in Halmahera, Ternate, Amblau (an island south-east of Bouru), Ceram, 

 Amboyna, Poulo-Padjang (near Ceram Laut), the Ke and Aru Islands, Mysol, Salwatty, 

 Guebe, and Western New Guinea. 



As to the name given to this sj)ecies in any special locality, Dr. Blasius tells us that 

 seven specimens collected by Dr. Platen in Ceram were labelled as follows : — " Native name 

 Parkietschi Klassa." 



Wallace ('Malay Archipelago,' 1st edition, vol.[ii. p. 16) gives us the following account of 

 this bird : — " In September 1858, after my return from New Guinea, I went to stay some 



