J. Gould/ iWHart/delteùlùfu
CHÄLCOPSITTÄCtrS SCINTIL1LATUS. WaUenlmj).
CHALCOPSITTACUS SCINTILLATUS ( l f a j
Red-Fronted Lory.
Amber Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. Suppl. p . 65.^ I d . Gen. H is t ii. p. 252 (1822).
Psittacus balavensis, Lath, (nee Wagl.), Ind. Ora. i. p. 126 (1790).—Beeilst. Kurze Hebers, p. 101 (1811).—Vieill.
Nout. Diet. xxv. p. 375 (1817).—Kuhl, Consp. B ritt p. 99 (1820).—VieUi. Encycl. Méthod. p. 1406
(1823).
Psittacus scintillatus, Temm. Pl. Col. 569 (1835).
Lorius scintillatus, Bourj. Perroquets, pl. 51 (1S37-38).—Hombr. & Jacq. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, xvi.
p. 317 (1841).—Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaà, p. 122 (1864).—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 158 (1865).—
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Psi'iteri, Revue, p. 56 (1874).—Giebel, Thes. Om. ii. p. 502 (1875).—Rosenberg,
Malay Archip. p. 371 (1879).
Psittacus scintillons, Miiller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 22, 127 (1839-44).
Eos scintillatus, Gray, Gen. Birds, ii. p. 417 (1845).—Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 39, 59 (1859).—Id. List
Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1859).—D’Albertis, Sydney Mail, 1877, p. 248.—Id. An n , Mus. Civ. Genova,
I P- 8 (1877).
Chalcopsitta scintillata, Bp. Consp. Avium, i. p. 3 (1850).—Id. Revue et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 156.—Id.
Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psittaci, sp. 305.—Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 194; 1861, p. 436.__
Rosenb. Joum. für Orn. 1862, pp. 64, 65.—Id. Nat. Tijdscbr. Ned. Ind. xxv.pp. 144,14 5 , 225 (1863).__
Id. Joum. fur Om. 1864, p. 113—Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 289.—Gray,Hand-1. B. ii. p. 153,
no. 8192 (1870).—Sclater, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 862.
Chalcopsitta scintillons, Bp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 26.—Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 165 (1858).—Id. Proc.
Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 227.
Chalcopsitta rubri/rons, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, pp.- 182, 194, pl. 135.—Id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436.
Eos rubri/rons, Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1859).—Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 39, 59 (1859).—Rosenb.
Joum. fur Orn. 1864, p. 114.—Id. Reis, naar Zuidoostereil., p. 48 (1867).
Domicella scintillata, Finsch, Die Papag. ii. p. 752 (1868).—Meyer, Sitz. k.-k. Akad. der Wissensch. zu Wien, lxx.
p. 238 (1874).—Sharpe, Proc. Linn. Soc., Zool. xiii. p. 80 (1878).
Chalcopsittacus chloropterus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ix. p. 15 (1876) ; x. p. 34 (1877).—D’Albertis, Sydney
Mail, 1877, p. 248.—Id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov, x. p. 8 (1877).—Id. Ibis, 1877, p. 366.
Chalcopsittacus scintillatus, D’Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, x. p. 19 (1877).—Salvad. tom. cit. p. 34 (1877).
—rid. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 93.—D’Albertis & Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv. p. 37 (1879).__
Sharpe, Proc. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 686 (1879).—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iv. p. 96 (1879).—
Salvad. Orn. Papuasia &c., i. p. 274 (1880).
Chalcopsitta chloropterus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 254 (1878-9).
T h e above intricate synonymy has been copied from Count Salvadori’s grand work on the Ornithology
o f Papuasia. Indeed it would be difficult to write the synonymy of any New-Guinea bird without reproducing
what has been written by the learned Italian ornithologist, so completely does h e seem to have exhausted
the literature o f his subject.
T h e Red-fronted Lory appears to he found in New Guinea and the Aru Islan d s; in the latter locality
it cannot be very rare, and many specimens were collected by Dr. Beccari during his expedition to
these islands in the spring o f 1873. According to Baron von Rosenberg the inhabitants call the bird
Jaran-kra.
In New Guinea it was met with by Salomon Muller a t Lobo Bay, and in the north-west part o f the
island it has been procured by Dr. A. B. Meyer a t Rubi, by Baron von Rosenberg a t Jo u r, a place situated
at the very lowest p a rt of the Bay o f Geelvink, and a t Mesan by D r. Beccari. In south-eastern New
Guinea it has been met with by Signor D’Albertis on the Fly River, and also in the neighbourhood of
Hall Bay, while Mr. Octavius Stone got specimens in the vicinity o f Po rt Moresby. The greater
amount o f green on the under wing-coverts in some o f the more southern specimens induced Count
Salvadori a t one time to consider them a distinct species, which he called C. chloropterus; and a t one time
we were ourselves inclined to believe in the validity o f this species. But, after an examination o f more
extensive material, Count Salvadori finds great variation to exist in the colouring o f these parts, and he
has decided to suppress the supposed southern species.
The following description is taken from Count Salvadori’s work :—
“ Green ; the middle o f the back and rump brighter and more blue, with very narrow shaft-streaks of
yellow ; sinciput and lores red ; the sides o f the head and chin dark brown, almost blackish ; occiput dark