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V a r . C.
18.
LONG-T AILED
SCARLET
LORY.
DESCRIPTION.
feathers fomewhat longer than the reft: the general colour of the
plumage fcarlet: on the middle of the back, between the wings,
a fmall yellow fpot:: between this and the rump blue, with a
mixture of green: fides.of,the body and thighs yellow.: wings
green: quills dulky.
^ p H E other wants the blue black on the hind head: the mid-
die of the belly is green : and the yellow on the fides comes
fo forward on the breaft as almoft to form a crefcent on that
part: wings and tail the fame as in the other. The colour of the
back could not be decided,-as. the bird was clofed in a glafs cafe,
and the wings wholly, coyer.ed that part.
rPfittacnS Borneus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 141. N° 11.
, La Perruche rouge de Borneo, Brif. orn.lv. p. 373. N® 77.
i Le Lori Perruche rouge, N° I. Buf. oif. vi. p. 137.
Long-tailed fcarlet Lory, Bdrui. t. 173.
T N length eight inches-and a half. Bill orange-coloured : eye
A in a bare dulky ikin : colour all over of a fine fcarlet, except
the top of the-wing,-which is- green : fome of the wing feathers
are-tipped with blue, and others with-green : the tips of all the
tail feathers are greenilh, and the two outer ones of a greenilh
colour: the whole length on the outlide the tail is cuneatedj
the two middle feathers longer by an inch and a half than the
out-er ones: the under tail coverts are of a dull red, fringed with
blue : on. the neck and breaft is a flight mixture of yellow: legs
dulky. v
I do not find any one. who has defcribed it before Edwards \
he purchafed it Huffed at- a toy-fhop, and was informed that it
came from Borneo, in the Eaft Indies,
La Perruche rouge des Indes, Brif. or«, iv. p. 376. t. 23. f. 2.
Le Lori Perruche violet & rouge, N° 2. Buf. oif. vi. p. 138.
Perruche des Indes orientales, PL enl. 143.
' | 'HIS is a trifle bigger than the laft, being in length ten inches
and three quarters, of which the tail makes up one-third.
The bill is reddilh; tip black: forehead, hind part, and fides of
the head and throat, fcarlet: crown, hind part of the-neck, and
the breaft, inclining to violet blue : on each fide of the head is a
ftripe of the fame colour, reaching from the corner of the eye,
and joining the violet at the back part of the neck : the fore part
of the neck is pale red, mixed with brown and violet: back and
fcapulars brown, with a flight mixture of red: lower part of the
back, the rump, and upper tail coverts, deep red: belly, fides,
thighs, and lower tail coverts, red, brown, and violet blue,
mixed: under the wings fcarlet: greater quills pale brown; the
fecondaries tipped with violet brown : tail four inches and three
quarters in length ; the two outer feathers much Ihorter than the
middle ones : legs and claws brown.
Inhabits Amloina.
T ENGTH fifteen inches. Bill yelloWilh brown: round the
bafe of the under mandible and chin fine blue : head, neck,
rump, anjl under parts, crimfon; the laft paleft: back brown;
F f each
Pla c e .
19.
INDIAN LORY.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
P la c b .
20.
BEAUTIFUL
LORY.
D e scr ip t ion .