CHALCOPSITTACUS SCINTILLATUS (tTemm.

Red-Fronted Lory.

Amber Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. Suppl. p. 65.—Id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 252 (1822).
Psittacus batavensis, Lath. (nec Wagl.), Ind. Orn. i. p. 126 (1790).—Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 101 (1811).—Vieill.

Nouv. Dict. xxv. p. 375 (1817).—Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 99 (1820).—Vieill. Encycl. Méthod. p. 1406
(1823).

Psittacus scintillatus, Temm. Pl. Col. 569 (1835).

Lorius scintillatus, Bourj. Perroquets, pl. 51 (1837-38).—Hombr. & Jacq. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, xvi.
p- 317 (1841).—Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, p. 122 (1864).—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p- 158 (1865).—
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Psittacit, Revue, p. 56 (1874).—Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 502 (1875).—Rosenberg,
Malay Archip. p. 371 (1879).

Psittacus scintillans, Miiller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 22, 127 (1839-44).

Eos scintillatus, Gray, Gen. Birds, ul. 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. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova,
Xi JO. & CUS)

Chalcopsitta scintillata, Bp. Consp. Avium, i. p. 3 (1850).—Id. Revue et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 156.—Id. i
Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psittaci, sp. 305.—Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 194; 1861, p. 436.— |
Rosenb. Journ. fiir Orn. 1862, pp. 64, 65.—Id. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 144, 145, 225 (1863).—
Id. Journ. fiir Orn. 1864, p. 113.—Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 289.—Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 153,

 

 

 

no. 8192 (1870).—Sclater, P. Z.S. 1872, p. 862.

Chalcopsitta scintillans, Bp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 26.—Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 165 (1858).—Id. Proc.
Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 227.

Chalcopsitta rubrifrons, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, pp. 182, 194, pl. 135.—Id. P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 436.

Eos rubrifrons, Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1859).—Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 39, 59 (1859).—Rosenb.
Journ. fiir 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, Ixx.
p. 238 (1874).—Sharpe, Proc. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. 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).
—Id. 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. ill. p. 254 (1878-9).

 

 

Tur above intricate synonymy has been copied from Count Salvadori’s grand work on the Ornithology
of 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 he seem to have exhausted

 

the literature of his subject.

The Red-fronted Lory appears to be found in New Guinea and the Aru Islands; 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 of 1873. According to Baron von Rosenberg the inhabitants call the bird
Jaran-kra.

In New Guinea it was met with by Salomon Miiller at Lobo Bay, and in the north-west part of the
island it has been procured by Dr. A.B. Meyer at Rubi, by Baron von Rosenberg at Jour, a place situated
at the very lowest part of the Bay of Geelvink, and at Mesan by Dr. Beceari. 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 of Port Moresby. The greater
amount of green on the under wing-coverts in some of the more southern specimens induced Count
Salvadori at one time to consider them a distinct species, which he called C. chloropterus ; and at one time
alidity of this species. But, after an examination of more

 

we were ourselves inclined to believe in the v
extensive material, Count Salvadori finds great variation to exist in the colouring of these parts, and he

 

has decided to suppress the supposed southern species.
1 mite rark *«-—
The following description 1s taken from Count Salvadori w ork :
«“ Green: the middle of the back and rump brighter and more blue, with very narrow shaft-streaks of
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yellow ; sinciput and lores red ; the sides of the head and chin dark brown, almost blackish ; occiput dark
; sinc