LORIUS FLA VO-PALLIATUS, Salvad.

Yellow-mantled Lory.

Lortus garrulus (nec L.), Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 226 (nec p. 227).—Rosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 62
(pt.).—Id. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxiii. p. 141 (1862, nee p. 142).—Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864,
p- 289 (pt.).—Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, p. 121 (1864, pt.)—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 157 (1885,
pt.).—Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 153, no. 8189 (1870).—Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, Revue, p. 55
(1874, pt.).

Lorius garrulus, var., Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 356 (pt.).

 

Domicella garrula, Finsch, Die Papag. il. p. 776 (1868, pt.).
Lorius flavo-palliatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. p. 33 (1877).—Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, i.
p. 243 (1880).—Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 564.

 

 

Count Satvaport, from whose work on the Birds of Papuasia the above synonymy has been derived, was
the first naturalist who definitely recognized the distinctness of this Lory, as it was considered by Dr. Finsch
and other well-known students of the Parrots to be identical with Loreus garrulus of Halmahera, although
most of these writers recognized a certain variation in colour in the birds from Batchian. After examining
a large series of specimeus, Count Salvadori has pointed out that the species from the island of Batchian
differed from its relative in Halmahera in having the entire interscapulary region yellow. Similar
peculiarities mark the red Lories from the islands of Obi, Morotai, and Raou, so that Lorius garrulus would
seem to be entirely confined to the island of Halmahera, or Gilolo, as it is wrongly called by most English

 

naturalists.

This species is said to be a good talker, and large numbers of them are caught by the natives.

Adult, General colour above deep crimson, darkest on the scapulars, the mantle bright yellow ; wing-
coverts grass-green, with a patch of yellow near the bend of the wing; the inuer, median, and greater coverts
more olive-green, the latter with a tinge of golden ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, externally
glossed with purplish blue ; quills blackish, externally grass-green ; upper tail-coverts duller crimson than the
rump; tail-feathers green, dull crimson at the base, the outer ones purplish black, green at the ends ;
crown of head, entire hind neck, sides of face, and entire under surface of body bright crimson ; thighs
aries yellow, the lower greater coverts blackish ; quills below black,

green ; under wing-coverts and axill mee
Total length 11] inches, culmen 1:05, wing 6:0, tail 4-0,

crimson for the greater part of the inner , web.
tarsus 0°75.
The figure in the Plate represents an adult bird of the size of life. The specimen from which it has

been drawn was lent to us by our friend Dr. Sclater.

[R. B. SJ