Order PSITTACIFORMES 
No. 324. 
Family TRICHOGLOSSIDJE. 
TRICHOGLOSSUS MOLUCCANUS. 
BLUE-BELLIED LORIKEET. 
(Plate 275).* 
Psittacus moluccanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 316, 1788 ; “ Amboina ” errore=New 
South Wales. I select as locality Botany Bay. 
Blue-bellied Parrot, Brown, New Blustr. Zool., pi. vii., p. 14, 1776 ; Latham, Gen. 
Synops. Birds, Vol. I., p. 213, 1781 ; id., Suppl. Gen. Synops. Birds, Yol. I., p. 59, 
1787 (var. C.) ; Phillip, Voy. Botany Bay, pi. opp. p. 152, 1789 ; White, Journ. 
Voy. N.S.W., pi. opp. p. 140, 1790. 
Perruche des Moluques Daubenton, Plan. Enlum., 743 Vol. VII., p. 114 (? post 1776). 
White-collared Parrot, Pennant, Genera Birds, 2nd ed., 4to, p. 59, pi. 2, 1781 ; Latham, 
Gen. Synops Birds, Vol. I., p. 251, 1781. 
Orange-breasted Parrot, Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. I., p. 212, 1781. 
Psittacus moluccanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 316, 1788 (based on Perruche des Moluques, 
PI. Enl. 743, as above). 
Psittacus novcehollandia, Gmelin, ib. (based on Brown, New Illustr., pi. vii.) : New South 
Wales. 
Psittacus multicolor, Gmelin, ib. p. 328 (based on White-collared Parrot of Pennant “ East 
Indies ” ?=New South Wales). 
Psittacus hcematodus, vars. /3 & y, Latham, Index Ornith. , Vol. I., p. 87, 1790 
— moluccanus and novcehollandia Gin.). 
Psittacus semicollaris Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 103, 1790 {—multicolor Gm.) ; 
Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXV., p. 343, 1818 ; Kuhl, Nov. Act. Phys. 
Acad. Leop. Carol., Vol. X., p. 48, 1820. 
Psittacus cyanogaster Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., pt. n., p. 413, 1811 : New South Wales. 
Psittacus hcematopus Bechstein, Kurze Uebers Vogel, p. 67, 1811 (partim) ; Kuhl, Nov. 
Act. Phys. Acad. Leop. Carol., Vol. X., p. 34, 1820 (partim). 
Trichoglossus hcematodus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 289, 
1827 (specimens). 
Trichoglossus hcematopus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 129, 1826 (part). 
* The Plate is lettered Trichoglossus novcehollandice. 
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