PSITTACI. 
Fam. TRICH0GL0SSID2E. 
Bill with the upper mandible long, compressed gradually from the base, the tip rather 
straightened and acute ; under mandible longer than it is high, the tip less obtuse than in the 
Psittacidce. 
Genus LOEICULUS. 
Bill with the upper mandible long, gently curved, compressed ; margin with a slight lobe 
near the base; cere rather advanced; under mandible shallow and considerably elongated. 
Wings long, with the 2nd quill the longest, and slightly exceeding the 1st and 3rd. Tail short, 
rounded, scarcely exceeding the closed wings. Tarsus very short. Toes long, the outer anterior 
much exceeding the inner, which is about equal to the tarsus ; claws stout, long, and well curved. 
LOEICULUS INDICUS. 
(THE CEYLONESE LORIKEET.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Psittacus indicus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 349 (1788). 
Psittacus asiaticus. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 130 (1790). 
Psittacula indica, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 390 (1760). 
Psittacula coulaci, Lesson, Tr. dOrn. p. 202 (1831). 
Loriculus asiaticus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, xviii. p. 801; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 127 
(1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 261 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 
Mus. E. 1. Co. ii. p. 628 (1856). 
Loriculus indicus, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 155 (1842); G. R. Gray, List Psitt. 
Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1859); Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 132 (1864); Walden, Ibis, 
1867, p. 467 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 426 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15. 
Loriculus edwardsi, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 295; Nevill, J. A. S. (Ceylon Br.), 1870-1, p. 32. 
Coryllis indica, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 714 (1868). 
The smallest Bed-and -green Parrakeet, Edwards, Glean, pi. 6 (1743); Bed-and-green Indian 
Parrakeet, Lath. Synopsis (1781), also Bed-rumped Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. (1822) ; 
Das ceylonische Papageichen, Finsch, Papag. ; The Small Ceylon Parrakec t, Kelaart ; 
The Ceylon Love-bird of travellers. 
Gira-malitchia, Pol-girawa, lit. “ Flower Parrakeet,” Sinhalese. 
Similis L. vernali, sed capite et occipite rubris, nucha flavo adumbrata diversus. Juv. capite viridi dorso concolori 
distinguendus. 
