462 GUEBY LORY. 



colour deep plain scarlet or crimson, the back-part 

 of the head and neck deep or violet-blue, passing 

 forwards and entirely surroundmg the neck with a 

 broad collar : on the middle of the belly a very 

 large patch of the same colour : greater and smaller 

 quill-feathers deep violet-olive, or nearly blackish, 

 marked by an interrupted red bar : tail of mode- 

 rate length, and slightly cuneated ; bill red : legs* 

 black. Native of the Moluccas. 



GUEBY LORY. 



Psittacus Gueoiensis. P. macr. coccineus, pectorCj interscapiiliis 

 abdomineque purpureis, hoc saturatiore, remigibvs nigris fascia 

 rubra. Lath, ind, orn. 



Scarlet Lory, with purple breast^ interscapulars, and belly, the 

 latter darkest, and black quill-feathers with a red bar. 



Perroquet violet. Fermin Siirin. 2. p. 1^5, 



Dr. Latham's description of this species seems 

 to come very near to the immediately preceding 

 bird, more especially as he mentions a broad ring 

 of purple, beginning at the lower part of the neck 

 behind, and passing to the breast, where it occu- 

 pies a large space. Some of the synonyms how- 

 ever quoted by Dr. Latham seem by no means to 

 agree with his specific character, but rather with 

 the following bird, which yet may be the same spe^ 

 cies in a different stage of colour. 



