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Superb Lory. 



Lorius superbus, Fkaser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 16. 



This bird is a male, and about equal in size to the Lorius Philippensis, Briss., to which 

 indeed it is closely allied, but differs in having the shoulders and smaller under wing-coverts blue, 

 and the larger ones black (in this respect somewhat resembling the Lorius domicellus, Auct.), in 

 the absence of the red band immediately below the black crown, as well as having an entire 

 red band from shoulder to shoulder, whilst the corresponding band in L. Philippensis is inter- 

 rupted in the middle of the back. 



The precise habitat is unknown. 



The crown of the head, the larger under wing-coverts, and the points of the primaries on 

 the under surface, are black ; the cheeks, throat, chest, rump, upper tail-coverts, and a band from 

 shoulder to shoulder, are red ; the neck, shoulders, lesser under wing-coverts, belly, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts, are blue ; the wings, externally, are green ; the red band between the shoulders 

 is divided from the rump by a band of black, which is tinged with blue; the tail above is 

 blue, beneath yellow. Irides, red-hazel ; beak, deep orange ; feet, almost black. 



Total length, fourteen inches. 



