224 



PARROT. 



160— CERAM LORY. 



Psittacus garrulus, hid. Orn. i. 112. Lin. i. 144. Gm. Lin. i. 333. Mus. Ad. Fred. 



ii. p. 14. Bor. Nat. ii. p. 91. 

 Psitt. ruber, remig. rectr. intus purpureis, It. Wgoth. 137. 

 Lorius Ceramensis, Br is. iv. 215. Id. 8vo. ii. 103. 

 Psitt. rufus, femor. alisq. viridibus, Frisch. t. 45. Klein, p. 25. 8. 

 Lory de Ceram, Bnf. vi. 129. Var. 2. Raii, p. 151. 

 Pcrroquet Lori-Nouara, Levail. Perr. pi. 96. 

 Purple Parrot, Charl. ex. p. 75. id Onom. p. 67. 

 Ceram Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 209. Shaw's Zool. viii. 536. Nat. Misc. 925. 



LENGTH from ten to eleven inches. Bill orange ; cere and 

 bare space round the eye ash-coloured ; irides deep yellow ; plumage 

 in general scarlet, except the lesser and under wing coverts, which 

 are mixed with green and yellow ; the wings are first yellow, then 

 green, the bastard wings violet ; greater quills dark green, beneath 

 hoary, inside scarlet, with cinereous tips ; the two middle tail feathers 

 are first green, then dull red, and tipped with green ; the next on 

 each side red for three-fourths of the length, afterwards green ; the 

 four outer ones first scarlet, then violet, with deep green tips ; the 

 lower part of the thigh feathers, or garter, green ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Isle of Ceram, and the rest of the Moluccas. 



A.— Psittacus garrulus Lin. i. 14-1. 25. /3. Gm. Lin. i. 333. 25. /3. 



• Aurorse, Lin. Ed. x. No. 22. 

 Psitt. coccin. alis ex virid. and nigro variis, Will. 78. Raii. p. 31. Klein, av. p. 17. t. 4. A. 

 Variete de Noira, Bnf. vi. 129. 

 Pappagello, Zimian. Vov. 92. t. 15. f. 82. 

 ■ Noira Lory. Gen. Spi. i. 270. 76. A. 



Size of a Blackbird. Bill and irides yellow ; body scarlet ; ridge 

 of the wing yellow ; wing coverts green ; quills black, with the outer 



