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3. HYPOCHARMOSYNA SUBPLACENS. 



(SCLATER'S LORY.) 

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



Trichoglossus subplacens, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 519. 



Psitteuteles subplacens, Sclater, in litt. ; Sharpe, Gerald's B. of New Guin. v. pi. xvii. 



(1877). 

 Coriphilus subplacens, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 36 (1877); id. Om. Pap. e 



Mol. i. p. 310 (1880). 

 Hypocharmosyna subplacens, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 75 (1891). 



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

 patch on the upper tail-coverts ; rump green, without any blue. 



Habitat. S.E. New Guinea, New Britain, Duke of York and Fead Islands *. 



The type of this species is the skin described, in 1876, by Dr. Sclater, F.R.S. It was 

 returned to Italy, and is not in the British Museum. 



This specimen came from the mountains of Naiabui, in Southern New Guinea. 



The upper parts — the occiput, nape, mantle, wings, uropygium, upper tail-coverts, and 

 basal half of the tail — are of a rather dark green. The pileum is of a very yellow-green, while 

 the bases of the feathers of that region are partly red. The cheeks and throat are bright 

 red, and, as in M. placens, the red of the cheeks is bounded behind by a patch of bright blue 

 over the ears. Dark green, however, surrounds the eye on all sides. The breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts are yellowish green. The sides of the breast are bright red. The 

 quills are dusky, but have a patch of yellow on their inner web, which forms a transverse 

 band of yellow on the underside of the open wing, as in the species last described. The 

 under wing-coverts are also bright red. The tail is green above, the two middle feathers 

 being tipped with red ; the lateral feathers are red at the base, then banded with black, while 

 they are yellow towards and at their tips. 



D'Albertis, who first discovered this Lory, says that the beak and irides are red and the 

 feet reddish yellow. 



Count Salvadori, on the authority of Layard, says "bill and feet coral-red; iris orange." 



Total length 7 inches, wing 3-7, tail 31, bill 4 55, tarsus 0"4. 



The female is distinguished by having the pileum of the same colour as the neck and 

 back, no blue patch on the ear-coverts, which are green with radiating yellow streaks. The 

 under wing-coverts are also green instead of red. 



* Fead Island is on the east of New Ireland. 



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