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they clung to the bright scarlet flowers, head downwards, or 
scrambled from branch to branch, while the forest echoed with their 
bickerings. They bit off the leaves (which fell like scarlet snow 
upon the ground) to get at the calyx, and when this dainty morsel 
was devoured, they flew off" to the banana-trees, down the broad 
leaves of which they slid, and fastened upon the ripening clusters of 
fruit or the pendent heart-shaped flower." — (Layard.) 
" The distinctive colouring of this species (or race) from L. ver- 
nalis would appear to be constant ; nevertheless, it is so very closely 
affined to the Indian bird, that many would prefer to regard it as a 
permanent local variety of the same species." — (Blyth.) 
Genus Eos, Wagler, Ahhandl Akad. Munch, p. 494 (1832). 
912. EOS RUBRA, Gmelin Sp. 
Psittacus ruber, Gmelin, S. iV^. I. p. 335. Lath., Hist. 
of B. II. p. 129. (PZ. Enl. 519. Edwards, B. 
t. 173. Le Vaill, Berr. t. 93, 44.) 
Eos rubra, Wagler, Ahhandl. Akad. Munchen, p. 494. 
O. B. Gray, Gen. ofB. II. p. 417. Blyth, Gat. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 11. Bonap., B. Z. 8. (1850), 
p. 28 ; Consp. Gen. Av. p. 4 ; Rev. Zool. (1854), 
p. 156. 
Psittacus borneus. Lath., Ind. Orn. I. p. 89 ; Gen. Hist. 
ofB. II. p. 127. 
Psittacus caerulatus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. t. 937. 
Psittacus cyanonotus, Vieillot. 
a. Locality unknown. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
Genus Lorius, Brisson, Orn. (1760). Vigors, Zool. Journ. 
p. 400 (1826). 
DoMiCELLA, Wagler (1830). 
913. LORIUS PHILIPPEN8IS, Brisson. 
Lorius philippensis, Brisson, Orn. lY. p. 225. Blyth, 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 10. 
Psittacus Lory, Gmelin, S. JSf. I. p. 335. {Edwards, B. 
t. 170. Bl. Enl. 168. Le Vaill, Berr. tt. 123, 
124.) Shaw, Zool. YIII. p. 534. Lath., Hist, of 
B. II. p. 228. 
Lorius tricolor, Stephens, Shaw's Zool. XIY. G. R. 
Gray, Gen. ofB. II. p. 416. 
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