BLACX-CAPPED LORY. 
age a la Nouvelie Guinee, observes that orni- 
thologists have improperly discriminated the 
different species of the Lory, by the epithets 
of the Philippine, the East-Indian, the Chi- 
nese, 6cc. These birds, he maintains, inhabit 
only the Moluccas, and New Guinea ; from 
whence, wherever they may be found, he is 
persuaded that they must have been originally 
carried. Of still greater impropriety are those 
guilty, who rank some species of the Lorv as 
natives of America, since none exist in that 
quarter of the globe; and if travellers have 
seen a few individuals, they have been intro- 
duced from the Asiatic islands. He adds, that 
the Lories in one island, he constantly found, 
were of a different species from those in ano- 
ther, though at a short distance only. A si- 
milar observation has been m.ade respecting 
tlie islands of the West Indies, 
The Black-Capped Lory, or Psirtacus Lory 
of Linnffius, is a very beautiful bird. Brisscn 
calls it the Lorius Philippensis, or Lory of the 
Philippine Islands. 
This specie?, which is about tlie size of the 
turtle- 
