134 PARROT. 



36— GUEBY LORY. 



Psittacus Guebiensis, Tnd. Orn. i. 90. Gm. Lin. i. 318. 

 Lori rouge and violet, Buf. vi. 135. Levail. Perr. \; 109. pi. 53. 

 Petit Lori de Gueby, Son. Voy. 174. t. 109. PI. enl. 684. 

 Gueby Lory, Gen.Syn.i. p. 219. Shaw's Zool. viii. 162. 



HALF the size of the Amazon's Parrot. Bill and irides fire- 

 colour ; head, throat, back, belly, and wing coverts carmine red ; 

 quills black, with a transverse band across the whole breadth ; tail 

 red brown. 



Inhabits Gueby, not far from New Guinea. 



A. — Perruche a chaperon bleu, Levail. Perr. pi. 54. 

 Blue-headed Lory, Shaw's Zool. viii. 461. 



Size of the Lory Parrakeet. Length nine inches and a half. 

 Bill dusky yellow ; irides yellow ; plumage, in general, fine glowing 

 red, or carmine ; lower part of the neck and breast surrounded with 

 a broad violet belt; on the belly a large patch of the same, but darker, 

 with a little mixture of the same under the wings; wing coverts 

 carmine red ; but the lower series and second quills red, with violet 

 brown ends ; hence, when the wing is expanded, appear two brown 

 bands, with a red one between ; greater quills fine brown; the base 

 half way on the inner webs red; the wings, when closed, reach three- 

 fourths on the tail, which is moderately cuneiform ; the colour fine 

 reddish, or chestnut brown ; the feathers rather pointed at the end ; 

 legs pale brown. 



This last, which is in my own collection, is probably an adult, in 

 full plumage : it had been in the possession of the late Right Hon. 

 Lady Mary Scott, for some years, after which it died, and was pre- 

 sented to me. I could not learn what changes it had undergone 

 whilst with her : it did not articulate any words, but was the most 

 docile and tame species I ever beheld. 



