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8. HYPOCHARMOSYNA PALMARUM. 



(THE PALM LORY.) 

 [Plate LIIL Fig. 1.] 



Palm Parrot, Latham, Syn. i. p. 253 (1781). 



Psittacus palmarum, Gin elm, Syst. Nat. i. p. 329 (1788). 



Nanodes ? palmarwm, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 120 (1S26). 



Loriculus ? palmarum, Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. cle Zool. 1854, p. 155. 



Cyclopsitta ? palmarum, Bonaparte, Naumannia, Consp. Psitt. (1856). 



Trichoglosms palmarum, Wagl. Monog. Psitt. p. 546 (1832) ; Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 868 



(1868) ; Brenchley, Cruise of the ' Curacoa,' p. 384, pi. 16 (1873). 

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

 Hypocharmosyna palmarum, Salvaclori, Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 78 (1891). 



Underside of quills entirely dusky and -with no yellow band ; thighs green ; some red round the base of 

 the bill. 



Habitat. New Hebrides. 



The Palm Lory is a species which has been very long known, having been described by 

 Latham in 1781 ; but nothing, so far as we can ascertain, has been recorded with respect to 

 its habits. 



It is a very plain bird compared with most Lories. 



The colour of the upper parts is that of a dark grass-green, somewhat olive-brown on 

 the mantle. The cheeks are lighter than the pileum and are streaked with bright emerald- 

 green. The feathers round the base of the bill to the chin are red. The underparts are 

 yellowish green, including the under tail-coverts and thighs. The quills have the inner web 

 black, with a very narrow yellow border, so that the open wing shows no transverse yellow 

 band. The under surface of the wing is blackish, and the under wing-coverts greyish green. 



The tail is green above with a yellow tip ; the underside of the tail is yellow, more or 

 less blackish in its basal half. 



The bill is pale red ; the feet are said by Pinsch to be flesh-coloured, but Salvadori (on 

 the authority of Richards) says they are dull orange, and the iris bright orange. According 

 to Pinsch the iris is red. 



Total length 7"5 inches, wing 3*7, tail 3 - 3, bill 0"5, tarsus 0*5. 



The female differs from the male in having very little red round the base of the bill. 



There are five specimens in the British Museum. 



