( I 7 3C ) 
The fecond Black-capped Lory. 
T HIS Bird is about the Bignefs of the blue Pigeons commonly 
bred in our Dove-Houfes : It is a very brisk and nimble Bird 
for the Parrot-Kind, and will hop along on a Cane or Stick, letting 
go its Hold with both Feet, and lighting again at a Foot Diftance on 
the Stick, which is an Action I have obferved in no Parrots but thofe 
of the Lory-Kind. 
The Bill is of an Orange-Colour, hooked at the Point ; the Edges 
of the upper Mandible are waved, but not fuddenly enough to form 
Angles \ the Noftrils are placed pretty near each other, in a dusky Skin 
at the Bale of the upper Part of the Bill ; the I ongue is foft, round, 
fmooth, and of a blackifli Colour ; the Eyes have reddifti-yellow 
Irides, and are encompaffed with a dusky^colour d Skin, bare of F ea- 
thers. The whole Crown of the Head is cover d with Featheis of a 
black Colour, with a Purple Glofs ; the Remainder ox tne Head, 
the Neck, Back, Rump, and whole under Side, are all of a very 
beautiful Red, or Scarlet-Colour, except a Crefcent of Yellow on the 
Bread, and fome blue Feathers on the Thighs, juft above tne Knees* 
The Wings on their upper Sides are Green* the greater Quills darkeft 
the other Quills, and the firft Row of Covert-Feathers next above the 
Quills, have fomething of Yellow on their Edges • the Ridge of the 
Wing about the Joint is of a fine Blue ; the inner Covert-Feathers of 
the Wings are Blue, but become Dusky or Black where they falcon 
the Inf ides of the Quills \ the inner Webs of all the Quills are^ oi a 
fine Yellow, except at their Tips, which are Dusky ; the Tail-Fea- 
thers are Red both above and beneath, but a little inclining to Puiple 
at their Tips ; the Coverts of the Tail, both above and beneath, are alfo 
Red i the Legs and Feet are of a dark Afh, or Lead-Colour, ^ formed 
as in other Parrots, having the Toes, two backwards and two forwards 
on each Foot ; it hath ftrong blackifli Claws. 
This Bird was the Property of my good Patron Sir Hans Sloane^ Bart, at vhofe Ploufe^I 
made an Original Draught of it. This, and all the other Sorts of the Scarlet-Pai rots, call d 
Lories , are brought from the Eafi Indies. I cannot dilcover that the above- defcribed Species 
hath yet been mention’d or figur’d by any Natural Hiftorian. I take this to be what Albin s 
fhould have been, had his Figure been from Nature. He has made a yellow Ring allround 
the Neck, which ihould have been only on the Brea tt. See Min's Hiftory of Birds , Vol I. P. 13. 
I have feen a greater Number of this Species than of the lafl defcribed* or of any oiher or tie 
Lories, all agreeing very exactly with the above Defcription, r ■ 
