PARROT. 129 



breast, belly, thighs, vent, and tail blue ; with a patch or two of red 

 on the sides under the wings, and a few markings of blue on the sides 

 of the neck and breast; the whole of the wings Parrot-green, except 

 the quills, which are black on the inner webs, and green without ; 

 the inner webs of the prime ones have a long yellow spot one inch 

 and a half from the ends ; legs dusky. 



The above was in the collection of General Davies, and coincides 

 with the others in most things, but differs in the wings, and may 

 probably be of another sex. The last described was brought alive 

 from India. 



31— MOLUCCA LORY. 



Psittacus ruber, Ind. Orn. i. 115. Gm. Lin. i. 335. 

 Lori rouge de la Chine, Buf. vi, 134. PL enl. 519. 

 Le Lori ecaille, Levail. Perr. pi. 51. 

 Lori de Gilolo, Son Voy. 177. pi. 112.* 

 Scaly Lory, Shaw's Zool. yiii. 463. 

 Molucca Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 274. 



LENGTH ten inches. Plumage for the most part red ; bill and 

 hides the colour of orpiment; the eye placed in an oval of black, 

 pointed before and behind ; on the middle of the wing an ultrama- 

 rine blue spot ; and under wing coverts are also blue ; quills black ; 

 end of the tail chestnut ; the shape somewhat cuneiform. 



Inhabits the Molucca IsJes, and New Guinea. One of these, said 

 lb come from the Eastern Islands, had the legs ash-coloured; claws 

 white.* 



* Sonnerat observes that all the Lories come from these parts "C'est improprement que 



" les ornithologistes ont designe les Loris par les noms de Loris des Philippines, des Indes 



" orientales, de la Chine, &c. les Oiseaux de cette espece ne se trouvent qu'aux Moluques 



" & a la nouvelle Guinee, ceux qu'on voit ailleurs, en ont tons ete transported. "— Sonn. 



Voy. a la nouvelle Guinee. p, 177. 



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