cere and round the eyes blackilh : irides orange : general colour
deep crimlon: bread, belly, fides, thighs, under tail and leiler
under wing coverts, deep violet: greater under wing coverts
blackilh brown: prime quills dull red; but of a blackilh brown
on the infides and beneath; tail feathers * deep fcarlet, tipped
with a pale dirty red: legs brown: claws black.
In the Planches Enluminees, and that figured by Brown, the bill
is black. In the laft, the greater quills and' one of the fecondaries
are blue, though not mentioned in his defcription. The ends
of the tail feathers are orange yellow: legs dulky 1 claws black.
So.
MOLUCCA
LORY.
Lori de Gilolo, Son. Voy. p. 177. t. riz-.
Le Lori rouge, Buf. oif. vi, p. 134*
Lori de la Chine, PI, enl. 519«
D escr ip t ion . r jiH IS Is ten inches in length, and the plumage almoft entirely
red. The bill and irides are of the colour of orpiment, and the
eye is placed in an oval of black, running out into a point before
and behind: on the middle of the wing there is an ultramarine
P lac e*
blue "I" fpot; and the under tail coverts are of the fame colour.
The quills are black: and the end of the tail cheftnut..
This inhabits the Moluccas, and New Guinea.,
So,- .
V ar . A .
D e scr ip t ion .
Lev, Muff
| ENGTH nine inches. Bill red: cere and orbits blueilh :
general colour of the plumage deep red: fcapulars of a
• The two middle feathers are a trifle longer than the others; but fcarco
enough fo, to place it among thofe with pointed tails,
f Two,, according to Buffont in the middle of the back.
glofly light.blue: lower belly and vent the fame: two or three
o f the thigh feathers alfo pale blue : the greater wing coverts
have the ends blue j the quills red; but the fecondaries have
dark blue ends, and the primaries greenilh black ones. The
baftard wing dulky black: the tail of a dull red, with .dulky
margins.
Said to come from the Eajl-Indies. P lach.
he grand Lori, Buf.oif. vi. p. 13;.
Lori de la NoilVelle Guinee, PI. enl. 683.
Purper-roode Loeri, Vofmaer. Monog. 1769. p. io. t. 7.
GRAND LORY.
is the largeft of all the Lories, being thirteen inches in D e s c r i p t i o n
length. The bill is black: the head and neck are fine red:
the lower part of the neck next the back violet blue: bread:
richly clouded with red, blue, violet, and green; the mixture of
green and red goes on to the belly: the quills, and edge of the
wing from the fhoulder, Iky blue: the reft of the plumage is a
deep red: half of the tail is red, and the end yellow: legs alh-
coloured.
Mr. Vofmaer* Ipeaks of it as coming from Ceylon-, but Buffon
fuppofes it firft to have been brought there from another place.
The three laft-mentioned leem to run much one into another, as
to colour; but as we have the above authorities for placing them
as diftinft fpecies, we lhall fo do, till a better acquaintance with
them may clear up the doubt.