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PAPUAN liOUY. 
of the other members of the group, the tip being 
furnished with delicate papilla;. Upon the vertex 
and nape are two irregular bars of azure, margined 
with purplish black. The lower parts of the tibiae, 
lower back, and rump, are also of a deep azure. 
Upon the sides of the breast and thighs are patches 
of rich yellow. The wings are green; the interior 
webs of the quills blackish. The elongated tail-fea- 
thers are pale grass-green, passing towards the tips into 
yellow ; the lateral have their basal half dark green, 
the remainder deep saffron yellow. This lovely spe- 
cies is an inhabitant of Papua, and other parts of 
New Guinea, and, as might be expected in countries 
rarely visited by the naturalist, little is known of its 
history or peculiar habits. Its remains, like those 
of the birds of Paradise, frequently reach us in a mu< 
tilated state, being deprived of the legs, and often 
wanting the long feathers of the tail ; and from such 
specimens have been derived the imperfect descrip- 
tions of various authors. 
We now enter upon an Australian group, which, 
in that division of the globe, takes the place of the 
Indian Lories. The members belonging to it, instead 
of having the ground or prevailing colour of the 
plumage of a red or vermilion tint, have it green, of 
brighter or deeper shade*, aceccding to the species, 
variegated, however, in many of them, with masses 
of the first-named colonr. In this genus, the tail is 
more elongated tha& in the true Lories, end regular- 
