136 PARROT. 



37 —RED-HOODED PARROT. 



Lori Perruche de la Mer Sud, Sonnini Buf. 

 Red-hooded Parrakeet, Shuio's Zool. viii. 466. 



LENGTH from seven to eight inches. Bill grey; plumage 

 yellow olive ; head and breast red ; quills and tail blue ; legs grey. 

 Inhabits the the Islands of the South-Seas. 



38.— BLUE-NECKED LORY. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill red, round the base a ring of 

 black ; plumage in general crimson ; the eye placed in a bluish skin ; 

 from the eye, on each side, a broad band of dusky blue, dividing the 

 neck, passing to the wing, and finishing as a band on the back, between 

 the wings ; the feathers which compose this band are narrow, and 

 wholly blue on the sides of the neck, but appearing chiefly as streaks 

 on the back, the feathers being crimson, with a dash of blue at the 

 ends ; the rest of the back crimson ; under parts of the body the same, 

 mixed with markings of a deeper colour, the ends of the feathers 

 inclining to chestnut ; wing coverts dusky black, and scarlet mixed ; 

 scapulars dusky black, with crimson ends ; the four first greater 

 quills greenish, inclining to yellow ; the shafts dusky white ; the 

 others the same at the ends ; the inner webs more or less crimson 

 from the base, on one or both margins, the more inward ones are 

 nearly so, except at the ends, giving the whole of the wings a mixed 

 appearance ; under wing coverts crimson ; tail cuneiform, the two 

 middle feathers nearly five inches and a half long, dusky greenish 

 black; the rest crimson on the inner webs and ends, and dusky 

 areenish black on the outer ; the exterior one three inches and a half 

 in length, and wholly crimson at the tip; upper and under tail 

 coverts crimson ; legs brown. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



