BLUE-BELLIED LORIKEET. 
p. 6, “ The White-collared Parrot,” and on p. 59, Explanation of the Plates, 
it is described thus : 44 P. with a red bill ; blue head, cheeks, and chin ; 
green neck, back, and wings. Neck half surrounded with a white collar, 
passing over the upper part towards the throat. Upper part of the breast of 
a fine red; the lower yellow; belly blue; thighs, yellow and blue; tail, 
cuneated ; yellow beneath. Inhabits the isles of the East Indies ? ” 
In the Gen. Synops. Suppl. I., p. 59, 1787, Latham added a var. C: 
“ This variety differs merely in having five or six spots of red tipped with 
yellow on the scapulars and inner bend of the wing, and the blue bounded 
with reddish at the nape. I observed it among the drawings of Colonel 
Davies .” 
This was placed by Salvadori as a questionable reference to the next 
species, but that bird has not a 44 blue belly,” so I place it here with doubt, 
as this is the only blue-bellied Trichoglossus. 
The next reference is by Phillip, who gave a plate and reprinted Latham’s 
account, taken from Brown, with this note: “ To this account little need be 
added, except that in our present specimens the parts there said to be blue 
are rather a bright lilac ; the bill is a deep orange, and there are red spots 
on the back between the wings, and a few near the vent feathers.” 
White simply gave a plate without comment. 
After Gmelin had dealt with the species as above noted, Kerr in his 
“Animal Kingdom,” published in 1792, named the varieties trinomially, and 
therefore on p. 564 wrote: 44 Ps. heematotus moluccanus and Ps. hcematotus 
novcehollandice ,” and added Ps. hcematotus daviesianus for Latham’s var. C 
above described. 
Notwithstanding the above, another name had been introduced by 
Gmelin for Pennant’s White-collared Parrot, viz., P. multicolor , for which 
Latham preferred his own name P. semicollaris. 
In 1827 Vigors and Horsfield published their “Description of the Australian 
Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society,” and used the name Trichoglossus 
hcematodus , writing : “ Mr. Caley informs us that 4 this bird is called Wafrin 
by the natives, and by the settlers Blue Mountain Parrot. The young birds of 
this species are taken by the natives, who sell them to the settlers inhabiting 
the banks of the Hawkesbury and the neighbourhood of Richmond Hill, 
which latter settlement, being situated at the foot of the mountains, the 
above name has been given to the bird. The name, however, is misapplied, 
for this species does not frequent the mountains ; at least, I have never met 
with it there during the various times and the different seasons that I visited 
those parts. It is a bird remarkable for its docility and attachment to some 
people, although a perfect scold to others who may have teased or offended it. 
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