BLACK-CAPFED LORY. 
tliis there seems an objecSbion, which has not 
hitherto been remarked, since there are several 
Parroquet Lories, enumerated by BiiiFon^ 
which bear the same affinity, in every thing 
but size, to the Lory in general, as the com- 
mon Parroquet does to the Parrot properly so 
called, which is less than the Maccaw and 
larger than the Lory. 
It is not a little remarkable, that Goldsmith, 
in speaking of the various classes of Parrots, 
barely mentions the Lory, and what he does 
say seems unaccountably absurd. These are 
his words — 
The large kind, which are of the size of 
a raven, are called Maccaws; the next size 
are simply called Parrots; those which are en- 
tirely white, are called Lories ; and the lesser 
size of all are called Parakeets." 
This is all the account — we cannot say, the 
information — which Goldsmith affords us re- 
spe6iing the Lory, which is considered, as by 
far the most valuable of all the several descrip- 
tions of the Parrot tribe: ten reals being a 
common 
