BEAUTiri’L BIKDS. 
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oranixe-red colour. The elonojated tail-feathers are 
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pale grass-greeu, passing towards the tips into pale 
yellow ; the lateral have their basal half dark green, 
the remainder deep saftron-yellow. This lovely spe- 
cies is a native of Papua and other parts of Xew 
(xuinea, but little is known of its history or peculiar 
liabits. 
There is a beautiful species, a native of Xew Hol- 
land, called the Blue-bellied Lorikeet (TricliogJossus 
Swainsoiii) . It is found in large flocks wherever tlie 
various species of Eucalypti abound, the flowers of 
those trees affording an abundant supply of food to 
this as well as to other species of the nectivorous 
Parrots. It is an inhabitant of the plains, not of hilly 
districts ; is called War-rin by the natives, and its 
flesh is highly esteemed. Total length of the bird, 
thirteen inches, of which the tail occupies six ; bill 
orange-yellow ; head and throat of a fine bluish-piu'ple, 
the feathers rigid and subulate ; lower neck and breast 
bright vermilion-red, passing on the side of the neck 
into rich King’s yellow; middle of abdomen of a deep 
imperial purple, the feathers towards the sides ver- 
milion, tipped ^vith vivid green ; hypochondria green, 
the basal part of the feathers marked with vermilion 
and yellow ; tibial feathers vermilion-red ; under tail- 
coverts, with the base of the feathers, red, the middle 
part yellow, tlie tips green ; under wing-coverts rich 
vermilion-red ; margin of the wings and all the upper 
plumage bright grass-green ; the feathers upon the 
lower part of the back of the neck, with their bases, 
vermilion margined vdth yellow ; tail, with the four 
middle feathers, entirely green, the remainder of the 
