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GENUS EOS Wagl. 
Lories of about tbe size of a Turtle-dove (Salvadori), with a rather long 
about ^4 the length of the wing — strongly-graduated tail, the outermost rectrice 
being about 4 cm shorter than the middle ones; wings moderately long, the 
three outermost primaries terminally narrowed, 2“'^ and the longest, secon- 
daries short, the outermost reaching about half the wing-length; bill orange -red; 
plumage chiefly red, black and blue; wings chiefly red, or red and black (ex- 
cept in E. fuscata) by which Eos difliers from Lorius, in which the wings are 
green. Salvadori recognises 11 species; they range from Talaut through the 
Moluccas to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, occurring also in the Te- 
nimber Islands and in Ponape, Caroline Islands. 
* 37. EOS HISTRIO (St. MtilL). 
Red-and-blue Lory. 
Under this sirecies-name we include three subspecies, viz: - — the typical^) 
E. histrio (Mull): Sangi; E. histrio talautensis M. & Wg.: Talaut; E. histrio chal- 
lengeri Salvad. : Melangis. 
1. The typical Eos histrio (Miill.). 
a. Psittaea indica eoecinea Briss. , Oru. 1760, IV, 376, pi. 25, f. 2. 
h. “Perruche des Indes Orientales” (I) L’Aubert. , PI. Enl. 143. 
c. Psittaeus histrio Miill., S. N. Suppl. 1776, 76. 
d. “Lori Perruche violet et rouge” Buff.; (I) LevailL, Perr. 1801—5, pi. 53. 
e. Psittaeus indicus Gm. , S. N. 1788, I, 318. 
/: Psittaeus coccineus Lath, 1790; (I) Shaw, Gen. Zool. 1811, VIH, 461, pi. 68. 
g. Lorius coccineus Steph; (1) ScliL, Mus. P.-B. Psittaci 1864, 128; (2) id.. Rev. Psitt 
1874, 58. 
h. Eos indica (1) Wagl., Mon. Psitt. 1832, 557; (2) Wall., P. Z. S. 1864, 290, 295; (3) 
Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 465, 634; 1874, 587. 
i. Eos eoecinea Sclat., P. Z. S. 1860, 227; Salvad., Orn. Pap. I, 1880, 268. 
j. Domicella eoecinea ^1) Pinsch, Papag. 1868, 11, 800 (nee Talaut); (IIJ Rowley, Orn. 
Misc. 1878, III, 123, pi. 98; (3) Meyer, 1. c. remarks; Meyer, Ibis 1879, 55; (4) 
Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 263. 
k. Eos histrio Gray; (1) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 563; (2) Salvad., Oat. B. 1891, XX, 21 
(Sangi); (III) Mivart, Loriidae 1896, 23, pi. VII, figs. 1, 3. 
l. Lorius histrio Koch; (1) Briiggem. , Ahh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 41, 101; Fischer, ib. 
1878, 538, note. 
m. Domicella histrio (1) Rchnw., J. f. 0. 1881, 167; Oonsp. Psitt. 103; (II) id., Vogelb. 1883, 
t. XXXI, f. 1. 
“Sumpihi”, Siao and Great Sangi, Nat. OoU. in Dresden Mus. 
For further synonymy and references see Salvadori k 2. 
1; The Saiig-i bird, as the first known from an exact locality, has the best right to this title. Levail- 
lant’s plate (d I) is not sufficiently accurate to represent the differences between it and the Talaut form. 
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