21.
V a r . A.
VIOLET LORY.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e .
22.
VARIEGATED
LORY.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Perroquet violet, Ferm. Defer» de Surin, vol. ii. p. 175.
'J 'H E bill is black; very ftrong: iris of a gold-colour : the
head, and all the upper parts, of a fine crimfon : bread; and
belly fine violet: the head appears as if divided from the body
by a line of violet, which pafies on each fide to the violet on the
bread:, giving it the appearance of the firing of a Jhoe-maker’s
apron * : the fcapulars are of a fine blue; wings and tail green
and red; whether the laft be long or lhort not mentioned.
Inhabits the coafts of the Amazons Country. I may furely venture
to place this as a variety of the laft, rather than- a diftinft
fpecies.
Lev. Muf.
T ENGTH from ten to eleven inches: in fize lefs than the
fcarlet Lory. Bill dulkygeneral colour of the plumage
deep fcarlet: the lower part of the neck, and beginning of the
back, and round to the breaft, the belly, and vent, are of a fine
purplifh blue, but inclining to a greenilh black on the lower part
of the belly : the upper part of the wings is wholly redthe
quills are dufky at the ends, but on the inner webs yellow the
wing, when lifted up, appears beneath to have one third from the
Ihoulder red and yellow mixed ; the middle yellow; and the ends
dulky: the tail is very little cuneated; the feathers green;; the
* Semble former le collier d'un tablier de Cordonnier. Fermin,
in fide
infide near the bafe reddilh ; the outer edge near the ends
blue.
This is a molt beautiful bird, and is faid to have come from the
Eaft Indies.
The three laft feem to bear great affinity to three mentioned by
Pernetty *, but his defeription of them is too imperfedt to be
relied on. £
Lori noir de la Nouvelle Guinée, Son* Foy. p. 175.’ t. i l l .
- -------- - . ForreJVs Voy. to New Guinea, p. 133.
g I Z E of the common Parrakeet. Bill blackilh ; eye in a bare
brown Ikin : iris compofed of two circles ; the greater one
blue, and the lelfer red brown: the plumage black, with a tinge
of blue, which has at once both a metalline glofs, as well as the
foftnefs of velvet : the tail is cuneiform, but not in a great degree,
but is long;- it is black above, and of a dull red beneath.:
legs blackilh.
Inhabits New Guinea.
Pfittacus ornatus, Lin. SjJt. i. p. 143. N® 19,
La Perruche variée, des Indes, Brif. orn. vt. p. 366. N° 73.
La Perruche Lori, Beef. oij, vi. p. 145-.
Perruche variée des Indes orientales, PI. s ni. 552.
Lory Parrakeet, Ednu. iv. t. 174.
r j 'H E lengtly of this beautiful fpecies is eight inches. The
A bill of a pale orange :■ cere brownilh : eyes placed in a bare
aih-coloured lkin: iris orange red : the upper part of the head is
Place.
BLACK LORY.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e ,
34-
LORY
PARRAKEET.
Discretion.
Voy, aux Malomteet, vol. i. p. 177.
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