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1. CHARMOSYNA PAPUENSIS. 



(THE PAPUAN LORY.) 

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



Avis paradisiaca orientalis, Seba, Thes. i. t. 60. figs. 1, 2 (1734). 



Pica paradisi, Klein, Hist. Av. Prodr. p. 63 (1750). 



Papouan Lory, Latham, Syn. i. p. 215, with varr. A, B, C (1781). 



Le petit Lory Papou, Sonnerat, Voy. a, la Nouv. Gain. p. 175, pi. Ill (1776). 



Laperriiclie Lori Papou, Levaill. Perr.ii. pi. 77 (1801). 



Psittacus papou, Scop. Del. Plor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 86(1786). 



Psittacus papuensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 317, with varr. & y, S (1788). 



Psittacus omnicolor, Licht. Cat. rer. nat. rariss. Harnb. p. 5 (1793). 



Psittacus liclitenstelnii, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 83 (1811-12). 



Psittacus {Belocercus) papuensis, S. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 471 (1839-44). 



Palceomis papuensis, Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 56 (1825). 



Pyrrlwdes papuensis, Swainson, Class. B. ii. p. 304 (1837). 



Eos papuensis, Schleg. Dierent. p. 69 (1864). 



Triclioglossus papuensis, Pinsch, Papag. ii. p. 878 (1868) ; Bchnw Vogelbild. t. xs-.ix. 

 fig. 5 (1878-83). 



Nanodes papuensis, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Psittaci, Bevue, p. 53 (1874). 



Lorius papuensis, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 195 (1831). 



Lorius papuanus, B,osenb. Beist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 113, 114 (1875). 



Charmosina papuensis, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 3 (1850). 



Charmosyna papua, G. B>. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 416 (1845). 



Charmosyna papuana, Sclater, Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 165 (1858). 



Charmosyna papuensis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 555 (1832); Selby, Nat. Libr.. Parrots, 

 p. 149, pi. 19 (1836) ; Sharpe, Gould's B. of N. Guinea, v. pi. xiv. (1876) ; Salvadori, 

 Orn. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 320 (1880) ; id. Cat, of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 82 (1891). 



Middle tail-feathers green at the base, a patch of yellow on the sides of the breast. 

 Habitat. North-western New Guinea. 



This very handsome species is one of the Lories which has been longest known, having 

 been figured by Seba. His figure is a curious one, representing the bird as it used to be 

 prepared by the natives themselves. G. B. Gray in one of his works (' Catalogue of Birds of 

 Tropical Islands &c.,' p. 32) gives New Ireland as its habitat. This, however, he did not else- 



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