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Rcd-collai'cd Lorikeet . 
the winy are the saijie colour; the tail feathers on the inside of 
the wing are tipped with yellow. The beak red (rainbow red), 
and the feet and legs ashy grey. The shape of the Lori dn 
Sii'ai)ison (Swainson's Lorikeet). 
Salvadori does not mention any difference in plumage 
between the male and female, and, if my memory is correct, 
iMivart, in his tine M oiiugra f^lilc dcs Luridcs, which at the 
moment I camiot lay hands on, also does not mention any. 
A. G. Butler, who has applied himself particularly to the 
study of outside characteristics, which allows the sex of the birds 
to be distinguished, contents himself with telling us that the 
beak of the female from its beginning to the middle is narrower 
and tapers more towards the end. He does not point out any 
difference in the coloitr of the two birds. But Wesley T. Page, 
who has closely studied a couple of these birds, wrote on this 
subject (Bird Notes 1908). 
" The sexes differ little, but the female is decidedly smal- 
ler and more slender than the male, and the different coloured 
parts of her plumage are not so sharply defined, but blend more 
or less with each other." He adds that these remarks need 
confirmation by other observations. It is precisely this 
confirmation, which Mr. Ollivry brings us to-day. Madame 
Lecallier, who has also seen this Triclioglossiis nesting in her 
aviaries at Caudebec-les-Elbeuf, wrote to me in her last letter, 
1 easily distinguish the female by the less vivid tint of her 
breast and neck." 
Let us note in passing that (Ornithology will owe once 
more to Aviculture the definite explanation of a question which 
she' cannot yet answer. 
Lc Lori a Collier Rouge is probably only a local form 
of Le Lori de Szt^'aiiisoii . The two principal characteristics 
which distinguish it are its orange-red neck and the colour of 
its abdomen, a very dark green, which appears almost black in 
the shade. 
This species is a native of Northern Australia, while the 
area of the dispersion of the Lori dit Sicaijisoii is to be found 
much more to the East. 
(iilbert. whom Gould quotes, says in fact that the red-necked 
Triehoglossi are very numerous in the Cobourg peninsula and 
