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4. HYPOCHARMOSYNA RUB RIGU L A RIS. 



(THE RED-THROATED LORY.) 

 [Plate L. Fig. 1.] 



Trichoglossus ruhrigularis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 451. 



Trichoglossus rvfigularis, Kleinschinidt, in litt. 



Corijphilus (?) ruhrigularis, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 419 (1882) ; id. Orn. 



Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 520 (1882). 

 Hypocharmosyna ruhrigularis, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 77 (1891). 



No red, but a yellow band on the inner web of the quills ; only the upper part of the throat red. 

 Habitat. New Britain. 



There is no specimen of this Lory in the British Museum, and we are greatly indebted to the 

 kindness of Dr. Kraepelin, of the Museum at Hamburg. He has been so extremely good as 

 to send us two specimens for examination, description, and representation, and the figure 

 here offered by us to our readers is, we believe, the first which has ever been published. 



The species was originally described and named by Dr. Sclater. Mr. Uleinschmidt (the 

 collector of the Godeffroy Museum) found this Lory in New Britain : he tells us that the 

 sexes are nearly alike, that the iris is yellowish red, the bill yellowish red, but darker towards 

 the apex, and that the feet are red. He adds that its native name is " Airara." The 

 specimens so kindly sent us by Dr. Kraepelin were two which had been obtained by 

 Edeinschmidt in New Britain. 



The upper parts are green — back, wings, uropygium, and tail-coverts ; the pileuni and 

 nape, of a darker grass-green. The cheeks are of a bright yellow-green, while the ear-coverts 

 are green streaked with light bluish green. There is a small spot of vermilion on the lores, 

 which colour extends downwards to the sides of the chin. The throat beneath is red. The 

 breast and abdomen are of a lighter green than the back, and the sides of the body and flanks 

 are yellow washed with emerald-green. The quills are dusky, with a yellow spot on their inner 

 web, which forms a yellow band across the underside of the wing. The under wing-coverts 

 are yellowish green. The tail above is grass-green, but the feathers become yellow towards 

 their tips ; the lateral tail-feathers show a patch of vermilion on the inner web, then a dark 

 spot, and the rest yellow, especially on the inner web. 



Total length 6-7 inches, wing 3-4, tail 3-2. 



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