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6. HYPOCHARMOSYNA KORDOANA. 



(THE KORDO LORY.) 

 [Plate LI. Pig. 1, male ; Fig. 2, female.] 



Trichoglossus (Gharmosyna) kordoanus, Meyer, Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, xxiv. p. 38 



(1874). 

 Trichoglossus kordoanus, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 151. 

 Nanodes rubronotatus (part.), Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, Revue, p. 51 (1874). 

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



Mol. i. p. 313 (1880). 

 Psitteuteles rubronotatus (female ; male ?), Sharpe, Gould's Birds of New Guinea, v. 



pi. xvi. (1877). 

 Charmosyna? kordoana, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 912 (1875). 

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



A yellow band on the inner web of the quills ; cheeks green ; a bright red patch on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 the female with bright green streaks on the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts of the male blue. 



Habitat. Mysore and adjacent islands in G-eelvink Bay. 



Of this species the British Museum only possesses a single specimen, which happens to be a 

 female. Having, in this difficulty, addressed ourselves to Count Salvadori, he, being away on 

 his vacation, referred us to Dr. Raphael Gestro, of Genoa, who, with ready kindness, 

 immediately transmitted to us the finest specimen of the male of this species which was 

 in his possession. 



Tbe male has the upper parts dark green with a bronzy shade, except that the forehead 

 and upper tail-coverts are very bright red. The ear-coverts are blue. The cheeks and chin are 

 yellowish green, and a continuation of this colour intervenes between the eye and the blue 

 patch over the ears and continues on to the end of the upper border of the blue, where it meets 

 the dark green of the nape. The breast, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts are yellowish 

 green, but the upper parts of the sides of the breast are red. The scapulars and upper wing- 

 coverts are like the back, but the quills are dusky, with a yellow patch on the inner web, 

 producing a yellow band beneath the open wing. The under wing-coverts are red. The tail 

 is green above, the two middle feathers with yellow tips ; the lateral tail-feathers are green 

 on the outer web, red at the base of the inner web, and this is succeeded by a black spot, 

 beyond which the feathers are yellow. 



According to Dr. Meyer the living bird has the iris of a fine yellow colour, that of the 

 beak and cere is a handsome red, the feet are of a lighter red, and the claws are grey. 



