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GRAND LORY. 



Psittacus grandis. P. coccineus, zona corporis suhviolacca, mar* 

 gine humerali remigumque ccervleia, cauda suhtusjlavescente. 



Scarlet Lory, with a subviolaceous zone round the body, edges 

 of the shoulders and quill-feathers blue, and tail yellowish be- 

 neath. 



Psittacus grandis. Grand Lory. Lath, 



Le Grand Loris. Bvff. ois, Lecaill.p. 126. 127. 128. 



Lory de la Nouvelle Guinee. PI. Enl. 683. 



Size of the Amazon Parrot: colour deep scar- 

 let; the upper part of the body clouded by a broad 

 zone of pale violet, sometimes intermixed with 

 green, and surrounding the breast and upper part 

 of the back : edges of the shoulders bright blue ; 

 larger quill-feathers of the same colour: vent-fea- 

 thers yellow; inner edges of the tail-feathers yel- 

 low towards the tip: bill black; legs dusky. Na- 

 tive of New Guinea and the Moluccas, and said 

 to be sometimes found in Ceylon. 



Monsr. Levaillant describes and figures a variety 

 in which the pale violet zone is scarcely percepti- 

 ble, and the feathers of the breast and belly edged 

 with green; and another in which the breast and 

 belly are very strongly clouded or scalloped with 

 grass-green, intermixed with red and violet; while 

 the vent and whole under part of the tail are deep 

 yellow. It seems to have been this latter variety 

 which BufFon describes, who does not appear to 

 have known the genuine colour of the male bird 

 in its complete plumage. 



