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1. OREOPSITTACUS ARFAKI. 



(THE ARFAK LORY.) 

 (Plate LX. Fig. 1, male ; Fig. 2, female.) 



Trichoglossus arfaki, Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wissench. Wien, lxix. p. 74 (1874); Rowley, 



Orn. Miscell. vol. i. id. 145, pi. xvi. (1876) ; Finsch in Rowley, op. cit. p. 147; Rchnw. 



Vogelbild. t. xxix. fig. 2 (1878-83)., 

 Trichoglossus (Charmosyna) arfaki, Meyer, Verb. z.-b. Gesellscb. Wien, xxiv. p. 37 



(1874). 

 Charmosyna arfaki, Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 715 (1875). 

 Psitteuteles arfaki, Sbarpe in Gould's Birds of New Guinea, vol. v. pi. 18 (1876). 

 Oreopsittacus arfaki, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 37 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pap. e 



Mol. i. p. 315 (1880) ; id. Cat. of Birds in Brit. Mus. xx. p. 84 (1891). 



The abdomen of the male more or less red ; female with the pileum of a rich green and the abdomen 

 tinged with orange. 



Habitat. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



The Arfak Lory differs from all tbe Lories hereinbefore described by having fourteen 

 tail-feathers. It was first made known and named by Br. Meyer, who obtained three 

 male specimens (one adult and two young) while collecting in the Arfak Mountains of 

 New Guinea. Dr. Sharpe gives (in bis ' Birds of New Guinea') a figure not only of the 

 adult (lent to him by Br. Meyer), but also of an immature male, lent to him by Mr. Bawson 

 Rowley, who had obtained from Dr. Meyer one of the three specimens he had collected. 

 The other young male is in the Turati Collection at Milan. 



Both a male and female skin exist in the British Museum, and both have been 

 represented in our Plate. The type is in the Museum at Bresden. 



The figure given in tbe 'Ornithological Miscellany' really represents the male, and 

 not, as stated, tbe female. This is so, since Br. Sharpe was assured by Br. Meyer that he 

 had ascertained by dissection that the three specimens he obtained were all males. 



Beccari says that this species is very common in the Arfak Mountains. 



The upper parts, from the occiput to the upper tail- coverts inclusive, are dark yellowish 

 green. The forehead and vertex are bright red. The ear-coverts and cheeks are dark blue, 

 with white dots so disposed as to form white lines. The chin and throat are grass-green. 

 The under part of the shoulders and the flanks are red, and the middle of tbe abdomen is 

 tinged with red. The thighs are like the abdomen. The under tail-coverts are yellow and 

 green, the bases of the feathers being yellow. The quills are largely black, the first entirely 



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