LORIUS FLAVO-PALLIATUS, Salvad. 
Yellow-mantled Lory. 
Lorius garnilus (nec L.), Sclater, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 226 (aec p. 227). — Rosenb. Joarn. f. Orn. 1860, p. 62 
(pt.). — Id. Tijdschr. Nederl. lud. xxiii. p. 141 (1862, nec p. 142). — Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 
p. 289 (pt.). — Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, p. 121 (1864, pt.). — Finscli, Neu-Guinea, p. 157 (1885, 
pt.). — Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 153, no. 8189 (1870), — Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, Revue, p. 55 
(1874, pt.). 
Lorius garrulus, var.. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 356 (pt.). 
Domicella garrula, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 776 (1868, pt.). 
Lorius Jlavo-pulliatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, x. p. 33 (1877). — Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, i, 
p. 243 (1880). — Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 564. 
Count Salvador!, from whose work on the Birds of Papuasia the above synonymy has been derived, was 
the first naturalist who definitely recognized the distinctness of this Lory, as it was con.sidered by Dr. Finsch 
and other well-known students of the Parrots to be identical with Lorius garrulus of Halmahera, although 
most of these writers recognized a certain variation in colour in the birds from Batchian. After examining 
a large series of s])ecimens, Count Salvmdori has pointed out tliat the species from the island of Batchian 
differed from its relative in Hilmahera in having the entire interscapulary region yellow. Similar 
peculiarities mark the red Lories from the islands of Obi, Morotai, and Raon, so that Lorius garrulus would 
seem to be entirely confined to the island of Halmahera, or Gilolo, as it is wrongly called by most English 
naturalists. 
This species is said to be a good talker, and large numbers of them are cauglit by the natives. 
Adult. General colour above deep crimson, darkest on the scapulars, the mantle bright yellow ; wing- 
coverts grass-green, with a patch of yellow near the betid of the wing ; the inner, median, and greater coverts 
more olive-green, the latter with a tinge of golden ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, externally 
glossed with purplish Idue; quills blackish, externally grass-green ; upper tail-coverts duller crimson than the 
rump ; tail-feathers green, dull crimson at the base, the outer ones purplish black, green at the ends ; 
crown of head, entire hind neck, sides of face, and entire under surface of body bright crimson ; thighs 
green ; under wing-coverts and axlllarles yellow, the lower greater coverts blackish ; quills below black, 
crimson for the greater part of the inner web. Total length II inches, culmen T05, wing C'O, tail 4-0, 
tarsus 075. 
The figure in the Plate represents an adult bird of the size of life. The specimen from which it has 
been drawn was lent to us by our friend Dr. Sclater. 
[R. B. S.] 
