Visits to Members' Aviaries. 
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Their glistening black plumage under the play of light 
scintillates forth many hues, and the patch of warm colouring 
(under tail-coverts) make them beautiful birds indeed. 
1 think 1 am riglit in stating that so far Mr. E. J. Brook 
is the only one who has successfully bred this species in captivity. 
vide Bird Notks, Vol. VIII.. first scries. 
BLACK-c.^PPKD LoRiE.^ (l^oritis lory) : When writing of 
the Lorudac one exhausts the vocabulary of adjectives and yet 
one cannot exaggerate. 
This species is fully as gorgeous as the preceding species, 
a-- tlie following sketchy description indicates : 
/1 —Crown black; sides of the head, throat, sides of 
l)reast and abdomen, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
red; hind neck, interscapular region and breast blue; abdomen 
and under tail-coverts bright blue: wings green; tail dark red 
a*^ base, greenish in the middle, then dark blue; beak red; feet 
])lack. 
It ranges over " North-western New Guinea, Salwatty, 
Batanta. Waigiou. and Mysol." (B.M.C, vol. xx.. p. 34V 
Another pair of faultless birds of which any bird-keeper 
might well be proud. 
Whtte-backed Lory {Eos fuscata) ; While the hues of 
this species are not so giisteningly brilliant as some of the fore- 
going, yet it is equally beautiful, containing in its varied 
coloured garment nearly every hue of the rainbow ; and without 
anv sliarp contrasts. Mrs. Burgess may well be envied the 
possession of so rare and beautiful a bird. Her specimen was 
uncannily tame and in faultless condition. 
On the occasion of my visit time did not permit me to 
take a full description of its plumage, so I will quote from the 
B.M.C. in c.rfcnso. 
Adult. " Dusky brown; vertex and a band on the nape reddish 
oiang-e; middle of abdomen and tibia red; feathers of the hind neck, inters- 
capular region, and lower throat edgfed with reddish, or greyish, or even 
with olive colour; lower back, and uropygium yellowish white; under tail- 
coverts purple-blue ; the wings show a purple tinge on the primary-coverts 
and on the anterior great-coverts ; the innermost great-coverts and the inner 
secondaries have a tinge of chestnut ; primaries with a slight tinge of olive 
on the outer edges, and with the inner web red towards the base ; under 
wing-coverts partly red : tail above greyish purple, the central tail-feathers 
