LORiUS TIBIALIS, Sedater.

Blue-thighed Lory.

Lorius tibialis, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 499, pl. xl.—Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 788.—Giebel,
Thes. Orn. ii. p. 503 (1873).—Salvad. Ann. Mus Civic. Genova, x. p. 33 (1877).—W. A. Forbes, Ibis,
1877, p. 278.—Salvad. Orn. della Papuasia e delle Molucche, p. 240 (1880).

 

Tuns is a very distinct species of Lory, and it is very much to be regretted that at present we are entirely

ignorant of the country which it inhabits. — It is, no doubt, as has been suggested by Dr. Sclater, a
denizen of one of the Molucca Islands.

The species was originally described by Dr. Sclater from a specimen which was living at the time in the
Zoological Gardens, and of this bird a very good figure was given in the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society.
It belongs to that section of the genus Lorius wherein the colour of the head resembles that of the
back, instead of being black.

The only other species which shares the character of the crimson head is Loriws garrulus ; but this is

 

easily distinguished by its yellow under wing-coverts. The original specimen was purchased by Mr. Jamrach

 

in the Calcutta market ; it lived for nearly four years in the Zoological Gardens.

The following is a description of the type, which proved, on dissection, to be a female :—

Adult female. General colour above bright crimson, the scapulars like the back; wing-coverts grass-
ereen, the lesser series mixed with crimson and with lilac along the bend of the wing ; the inner, greater, and
median coverts with a subterminal mark of dark crimson ; bastard-wing grass-green, bluish at the end of
the feathers, the outer feathers black at the base ; primary-coverts grass-green, blackish internally; quills
grass-green, the primaries blackish internally, yellow for more than the basal half, the basal part being
tinged with red; innermost secondaries marked with dark crimson near the ends like the greater coverts ;
nd tail-feathers bright crimson, with a purplish-brown band across the end of the tail ;

upper tail-coverts a
entire under surface of body bright crimson, mottled with yellow bases to

crown of head, sides of face, and
the feathers on the lower throat and fore neck ; thighs lilac-blue ; under tail-coverts bright crimson ; under
and axillaries duller lilac-blue, slightly washed with green and on the edge of the wing with

wing-coverts
yasal patch ;_ bill bright orange; feet pale flesh-colour, claws

red; quills below black, with a large yellow |
Total length 11-5 inches, culmen I'l, wing 6:4, tail 3°7, tarsus 07.

bright horn-colour.
esents an adult bird of the natural size, and is taken from the specimen

The figure in the Plate repr

described above.

[R. B. S.J