230 PARROT. 



the ends dark blue, and the primaries greenish black; bastard wing 

 dusky black ; tail dull red, with dusky margins. 

 This was brought from the East Indies. 



169 —GRAND LORY. 



Psittacus grandis, Ind. Orn.i. 116. Gm. Lin. i. 335. 



Le grand Lori de la Nouv. Guinee, Buf. vi. 135. PL enl. 683. Levail. p. 126. 127. 



128. 

 Purper rood Loeri, Vosm. Monog. 1769. p. 20. t. 7. 

 Grand Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 275. Shaw's Zool. viii. 533. 



THIS is the largest of the Lories, being thirteen inches in length. 

 Bill black ; head and neck fine red ; the lower part of the neck, 

 next the back, violet blue ; breast richly clouded with red, blue, 

 violet, and green, the mixture of green and red going on to the 

 belly ; quills, and edge of the wing, from the shoulder, sky blue ; 

 the rest of the plumage deep red ; base half of the tail red, the rest 

 yellow ; legs ash-colour. 



This was brought from Ceylon, according to M. Vosmaer.* 



A. — Differs, in having the upper parts of the body brown and 

 green, here and there mixed with a little clouded blue ; between the 

 wings blue and green mixed ; part of the breast and belly blue ; vent 

 the same, with a mixture of greenish ; thighs deep chestnut, the 

 feathers margined with paler chestnut ; tail the same, with pale tips ; 

 legs dusky. 



In the Museum of the late Dr. Hunter. 



He says it is bigger than the Ash-coloured Parrot, and less than the Amazon's. 



