157 



5. HYPOCHARMOSYNA AUREOCINCTA. 



(THE GOLDEN-BANDED LORY.) 

 [Plate L. Figs. 2 & 3.] 



Trichoglossus aureocinctus, Layard, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 344 (November 1875) ; 



Finsch, Joum. Mus. Godeffroy, Heft xii. p. 3, Taf. i. fig. 1 (1878) ; Rowley, Orn. 



Miscellany, vol. i. p. 261, pi. xxvi. (1876) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xxi. fig. 6 (1878-83). 

 Trichoglossus {Olossopsitta) amabiUs, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. JN". S. "W. i. p. 30 (July 



1875) (1877). 

 Coriphilus aureocinctus, Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 74 (1889). 

 Hypocharmosyna aureocincta, Salvadori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 78 (1891). 



Underside of quills entirely dusky and with no yellow band ; thighs red ; face and throat red. 

 Habitat. Fiji Islands. 



The Golden-banded Lory was made known and named by Mr. Layard in 1875. He says : — 

 " This species was first indicated to me by my son, Mr. Leopold Layard, who saw flocks of 

 them at Taviuni in company with Lorius solitarius, but could not obtain one. A few were 

 subsequently shot (I believe at Ovalau) by some one, and one passed into my possession." 



Mr. Ramsay tells us that " this very beautiful species was found at Ovalau by 

 Mr. Charles Pearce, who was fortunate enough to procure both sexes from a large tree 

 bearing branches of yellow blooms, from this they extracted a honey-like fluid ; they had not 

 previously made their appearance, and only remained while the tree was in flower. The 

 flock consisted of about thirty individuals ; the stomach contained nothing but the fluid 

 extracted from the blossoms, and a little pollen from the stamens of the flowers." 



Their flight is rapid and their cry is shrill. 



The upper parts are green, brightest on the rump. The upper tail-coverts are green. 

 The pileum is of a lighter green than the nape and occijDut. The cheeks and the throat are 

 red, a crimson patch extending from below the eye to the throat and chest. The lower end 

 of the throat is traversed by a narrow band of golden yellow. The breast and abdomen are 

 green, as are also the under tail-coverts. The quills have the inner web black, bordered 

 externally by green. There is no coloured band on the underside of the wing, and the under 

 wing-coverts are green. There is a narrow yellow mark on the external border of the wing. 

 The tail is green above, save that the apices of its feathers are yellow. The three outer tail- 

 feathers are red at the base and yellow towards and at the point, with a small band near the 

 antero-posterior middle of each feather ; the fourth feather on either side is blackish towards 



