EOS RETICULATA. 
Blue-streaked Lory. 
Blue-necked Lory, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. ii, p. 136 (1822). 
Lorius lorneus, Less. (nec. Steph.) Traite d’Orn. p. 192 (1831). — Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 27, note (1874). 
Psittacus reticulatus, Miill. Verb. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 107, 108 (1839-44). — Gray, Gen. B. ii. 
p. 42 (1846). 
Eos cyanostriata. Gray & Mitch. Gen. B. ii. p. 417, pi. 103 (1845). — Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 11 (1849). — 
Bp. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 29. — Id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 156. — Id. Naum. 1856, Consp. Psitt. no. 
303. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 226. — Wall. Ibis, 1861, p. 311. — Id. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 290. 
Eos bornea, Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 226. — Gray, List Psittac. Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1859). 
Eos reticulata, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 226. — Wall. Ibis, 1861, p. 311. — Rosenb. J. f. O. 1862, p. 61. — 
Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, x. p. 33 (1877). — Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, i. p. 245 (1880). — 
Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 51. 
Psittacus cyanostictus, Schlegel, Handl. Dierk. i. p. 184 (1857). 
Eos, sp., Rosenb. J. f. O. 1862, p. 65. 
Psittacus (^Eos') guttatus, Rosenb. Nat. Tijdscbr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 145 (1863). 
Lorius reticulatus, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, p. 128 (1864). — Finscb, Neu-Guinea, p. 157 (1865).— 
Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, Revue, p. 58 (1874). 
Domicella reticulata, Finscb, Papag. ii. p. 797 (1868). 
Eos reticulatus, Gray, Hand-list of Birds, ii. p. 154, no. 8203 (1870). 
The above synonymy, culled from Count Salvadori’s well-ktiown ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia,’ would seem 
to indicate that this beautiful Parrot bad been known for a long time ; and this is, indeed, the case ; but the 
only European who has shot the species in its native haunts has been Mr. H. O. Forbes, who procured several 
examples during his recent exj)edition to the Tenimber Islands. 
Various islands have been given as the home of this species, such as Borneo by Lesson, Celebes by Blyth ; 
and in the Leiden Museum the habitat was set down as Amboina. Captain Chambers was the first to indicate 
its true home when he presented two specimens to the British Museum as from Timor Laut, and Mr. Wallace 
afterwards confirmed this habitat by finding that the native traders often brought living examples from 
Timor Laut to Celebes. 
Mr. Forbes informs us that the species is common in all the islands of the Tenimber group which he 
visited, and that it is everywhere a favourite cage-bird with the natives. 
The following description is taken from one of Mr. Forbes’s specimens in the British Museum : — 
Adult male. General colour above blood-red, the head and hind neck uniform, the mantle striped 
with beautiful blue in the centre of the feathers ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coA^erts obscurely 
marked with dusky blackish at the tips ; scapulars black with red on the outer w'eb and at the tips, varying 
in extent and in some feathers occupying the whole of the outer web ; lesser and median wing-coverts blood- 
red, the inner ones with black on the inner web, which is more distinct on the bastard wing and greater 
wing-coverts, and gives a varied appearance ; primary-coverts and primaries black, narrowly edged with 
blood-red, increasing in extent so as to occupy the base of the inner primaries ; the secondaries blood-red, 
with black shafts and a broad bar of black at the end, decreasing in extent towards the inner secondaries, 
the innermost being entirely black ; centre tail-feathers black, the rest blood-red on the inner web, black on 
the outer, the external webs diagonally red at the tips, with the shaft black ; ear-coverts blackish, streaked 
with dull blue ; cheeks and throat bright red ; the rest of the undersurface from the lower throat downwards 
deep blood-red with dusky ends to the feathers, the plumes of the thighs and lower flanks with black bases, 
the latter with blue ends ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner lining of qnills beautiful blood-red, remainder 
of quills black below ; “ upper mandible scarlet, the tip orange-red ; lower mandible the same ; legs and 
feet black ; iris rich brown ” {H. 0. Forhes). Total length 12 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 9-0, tail 8 5, 
tarsus 0'65. 
Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 12 inches, wing 6-6, tail 5-4, tarsus O'Z. 
The specimen of this sex in the British Museum, sent by Mr. Forbes, is a very brilliant bird, and is streaked 
with blue on the sides of the rump and upper tail-coverts ; at the end of the black centre tail-feathers is 
a subterminal oval spot of red. 
The figures in the Plate represent a pair of birds, of the natural size ; they have been drawn from two of 
Mr. Forbes’s specimens. 
[R. B. S.] 
